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Acceptable Rules Of Conduct Were Suspended When It Came To The Spoon Shortage. The Deficit Had Gotten So Bad That Prices Were All But Unaffordable, And Dynastic Spoon Succession Had Become A Matter Of Considerable Interest. Spoons Were Even Postcode Engraved And Carried On One's Person To Eliminate Theft, And Good Table Manners, One Of The Eight Pillars Upon Which The Collective Was Built, Had Been Relaxed To Allow Tea To Be Stirred - Shockingly - With The Handle Of A Fork.

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.

We're In A Psuedoscientific Technobabble.

...the Landscape Inside Lord Of The Rings Was So Stunning And So Stupendous That It Could Be Absorbed As A Form Of Nourishment.

Reality Tv Was To Me The Worst Form Of Entertainment--the Modern Equivalent Of Paying Sixpence To Watch Lunatics Howling At The Wall Down At The Local Madhouse.