i mean, zora neale hurston is a major writer, american writer. and it was kind of mixed media. it was a wonderful thing. this is an enormous and creative country. the library of congress is basically two things in terms of its collections. it's the largest collection anywhere of the world's knowledge in 450, 460 languages. and it is the closest thing we have to a mint record of american creativity. not just books, but movies, music and so forth, areas in which america is creative. and we've only partially used this. and we have to preserve this, physically preserve this stuff . everything since 1850, 1860, practically. people don't realize that. they think, when you have a record, it's permanent. at the same time, the preservation thing is fascinating. conservation is one of the most fun, interesting things, and one of the most important. but for instance, the livermore labs at berkeley, we've been working with them. and now we have a technique for restoring old 78 records. even if they're cracked, you can restore the music. you can eliminate most of the static and restore the

how did these people get in, meaning ewe thinks and -- eunice and zora neale hurston? i didn't vote for them, about five exclamation points. i guess she missed -- she did that for a while. and she was on a path that high made her one of what ann clayton paul used to call the star arenas who ran harlem society, were always in the newspaper at this party or that gala or something like that. that was the path that she was on. and evidently, it scared her. that wasn't the life that she actually wanted. and i have no idea how successful, publishes a lot of short stories, essays and reviews, but who knows how that would have worked out. but she decided to go to law school. she chose a different path. she went to fordham law school, and it's interesting, we look at law schools at the time, most of the big law schools only admitted men at the time, and quite a few of them also had a color bar, although by no means, by no means all of them. and the catholic law schools that were called the women's law schools, i don't know if some of you have heard that term or not, tried to ta