Sometimes I Don't Know Whether I'm Thening

Literature Is Claimed To Be A Mirror Of The World,” I Said, “but The Outlanders Are Fooling Themselves. The Bookworld Is As Orderly As People In The Realworld *hope* Their Own World To Be—it Isn’t A Mirror, It’s An Aspiration.

Defiance Through Compliance.

Librarying Is A Harder Profession Than The Public Realizes, He Said. People Think It's All Rubber Stamps, Knowing That Dewey 521 Is Celestial Mechanics And Saying 'try Looking Under Fiction' Sixty Eight Times A Day.

A Missing Arm Might Ruin Your Symmetry. Personal Asymmetry Where I Come From Is A Big Taboo And Brings Great Shame On The Family And Sometimes Even The Whole Village." "do You Then Have To Kill Yourself Over It Or Something?" "goodness Me, No! The Family And Village Just Have To Learn To Be Ashamed--and Nuts To Them For Being So Oversensitive.

Every Book Should Have A Romance.