Job title: Book Fetcher
Job: fetching books
How quaint, I hear you say! Just-what-it-says-on-the-tin! Oh yes, the job would be nice n' easy IF the books did not have names like 3555.e.f.200-1, and live in rooms called GBX1, PP8, 6243-pez-0. And sometimes you go to room GBX1 to find periodical 3499.r.2001.z and, lo and behold, it s not there. It is in overflow in some other unknown part of the building. Or being reshelved, or already taken out, or so new it hasn't got there yet. Or reserved (I'm reserved, I know these things.)
It's all very confusing, and leaves me sometimes running round in the manner of an infant lost in the supermarket, only with sinister, moving shelves and aisles named in code (rather than, say, 'Fresh Fruit.') But my real fear is the Tower.
I have been up in the Tower once so far, and it's nice, if you like that sort of thing. But the puzzling, nay dangerous thing is that you need a key, not to get in, but to get OUT. So if you go up without a key, there is the possibility of getting trapped in there for eons or whenever someone next needs a book from the same floor of the Tower (eons.)
I have very short hair. I am worried.
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