Those who’ve ever ventured into the Scout office have witnessed first hand my battle with incurable bibliomania (currently 3000+ books line our walls), so when I saw this on TDW yesterday I pretty much dropped to the floor and started foaming violently at the mouth:

As part of a local children’s book fair, Slovakian artist Matej Kren was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna to install a massive fortress composed of thousands upon thousands of books. The piece — “Scanner” — is meant to evoke “a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits.”

Don’t you just hate it when artists try to explain their shit? Yikes. I just want to live in a castle keep made of books, and there’s nothing sublimely terrifying about that. Just imagine how it smells. I bet it’s like catnip to nerds. Check out all the photos of Kren’s “Scanner” project here.