Reading this I am a little green with envy about how lucky Americans got (and also a little queasy about how they squandered their luck to be become a failed so

Reading this I am a little green with envy about how lucky Americans got (and also a little queasy about how they squandered their luck to be become a failed society but I digress). My birth country has been ravaged by two world wars and then the brief but devastating stalinist era was not kind either. The chances of a random library being open since 1911 is basically nil.