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Well, damn.
I'd been planning to go to the Great Yorkshire Show tomorrow. Booked the day off work and everything.
And now it's been cancelled due to the weather.
I'll just have to go next year. And find something non-strenuous to do tomorrow, since I do still have the day off work.
Still, damn.
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She’d visited dozens of alternate worlds, and stolen books from quite a few of them. That was her job. She was a Librarian, a sworn and branded servant of a timeless organisation which collected works of fiction from thousands of different worlds. It was a dangerous and lonely job. It was, as other Librarians frequently said, the sort of job that you’d have to be a maladjusted obsessive high-functioning sociopath to sign up for.
So what kept her and all the other Librarians doing it? Well, possibly it was a high-minded urge to save valuable works of fiction and non-fiction for posterity, but more likely it was a chance to assemble a dream personal collection of her favourite authors and literary heroes. Though it would be nice if it could be both reasons. She’d feel much more comfortable with herself if her motives were at least a little bit ethical and virtuous.
I'd been planning to go to the Great Yorkshire Show tomorrow. Booked the day off work and everything.
And now it's been cancelled due to the weather.
I'll just have to go next year. And find something non-strenuous to do tomorrow, since I do still have the day off work.
Still, damn.
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She’d visited dozens of alternate worlds, and stolen books from quite a few of them. That was her job. She was a Librarian, a sworn and branded servant of a timeless organisation which collected works of fiction from thousands of different worlds. It was a dangerous and lonely job. It was, as other Librarians frequently said, the sort of job that you’d have to be a maladjusted obsessive high-functioning sociopath to sign up for.
So what kept her and all the other Librarians doing it? Well, possibly it was a high-minded urge to save valuable works of fiction and non-fiction for posterity, but more likely it was a chance to assemble a dream personal collection of her favourite authors and literary heroes. Though it would be nice if it could be both reasons. She’d feel much more comfortable with herself if her motives were at least a little bit ethical and virtuous.
