construction of the library begins

The construction of the library on the granite hilltops of rio was met with violent resistance from the church, slandering the project as a modern "babel", reaching toward the "skies of time". Protests around the building created a moral dilemma for the construction workers who laboured on its massive presence. None of the them doubted its futility, to be able to stand against time, but they carried on anyway, for they also felt the need to attempt it - a feeling which they held in their their stomach but did not voice, a human need to have mattered, to be remembered. This they carried within them, and with their hands built the archive with a sudden inexplicable urgency, through sunshine, through rain, through the friscalating dusklight.