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This library of fiction is not to be integrated into the existing library system, nor does it suggest a defragmentation of the library itself. However, it is a complement to this long-established network. As such, it should be perceived as a city initiative - as beneficial as would be a community center. It is a place for gathering, for sharing ideas, telling stories, and also is an environment conducive to solitary lecture.

Deprived public reading groups could use this space as their address. The narrow rowhouse basements with their unaccommodating columns of reading groups, such as Aylmer Street’s The Yellow Door, would benefit from more facilitating planning. It is an initiative to recover reading from its hiding places and express it as a public art.