Synecdoche: how a dark age arrives

From the admirable site Detroitfunk, this slide show of a public library abandoned with the books still on their shelves.

http://www.detroitfunk.com/?p=5116

Do you think there's a chance that you may remember some of these images? Then consider dedicating that memory to the spirit of Constantine Cavafy, the poet of dying civilization. Here, from the online Cavafy archive, is one of his elegies.

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=38&cat=1