An ode to Ras Beirut Bookshop which is being forced out of existence by greedy Hariri developers. I owe a lot to this bookstore. I developed my love of books, and my early love for collecting books, at this bookshop. I spent so much of my free time when I was in elementary school browsing and buying inside the store. Back then, my interest was purely in classical Arab literature. I used to buy books and developed my own arbitrary call numbers for my small but growing collection of books. I still have some of them with those labels I made for them.