>I think if people feel the need to explain the concept of a library and this is some shadowy samizdat notion now we might as well give up all pretense like we

>I think if people feel the need to explain the concept of a library and this is some shadowy samizdat notion now we might as well give up all pretense like we aren't in a dystopia. The author is being sarcastic. He knows very well that everyone knows what a (book) library is. How can you not tell that by "a few hundred years old already"?