December Library Catch-All [ OPEN ]

[aimsforknees]

WHO: John, Harold, and anyone who might find themselves at the Library
WHEN: December
WHERE: The Library!
WHAT: The Library is here and open to all! Come borrow books, find a comfy chair to relax in, or snoop around.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Will be added as they come up

The Library is a five-story neoclassical building of terra cotta, brick, and stone. And the inside is, in fact, a library! And rather clean and organized too. There's no dust, no muddy footprints (apart from your own), and all the shelves are organized by Dewey Decimal, subject, and author. All literature is something you might find in a 2010 New York City library: various forms of fiction, children's and teens' sections, history, science, cooking, gardening, the list goes on. There's even small sections of audiobooks on compact disks and of DVDs ranging from old classics to history shows. The first floor has a reading/study room, a comfortable space with deep armchairs and tables with chairs; the fifth floor has some smaller tables clustered under a skylight. Part of the second floor is abruptly closed off by a door with a biometric scanner that denies entry to anyone who isn't John Reese or Harold Finch; the walls surrounding this section are soundproofed, so even a keen listener won't hear anything from inside. Otherwise, it's a perfectly normal library!

Comments

[bigpoofymammoth]

Hm, that’s a nice name.

[Manny then looks over towards the library.]

Do you know how that structure over there suddenly appeared? Last time I checked, I don’t recall seeing it in that exact spot nor did I see a construction team building something a few days ago.

[aimsforknees]

[ How did it appear? A good question. ]

I'm not sure. I found it recently. No one knows how the buildings end up here. It's a complete library inside.

[ Does a mammoth know what a library is? Can a mammoth even read? Certainly the books would be too small, even the ones in the limited oversized section. ]

[bigpoofymammoth]

I see. Suppose that’s another thing that just happens around here.

[Manny glanced towards John.]

So what exactly does this 'library' do for all of us?

[He could certainly read the books. But the bigger problem here would be keeping his interest enough for him to finish reading.]

[aimsforknees]

[ Of course a mammoth doesn't know what a library is. It's not as if written literature existed back in their era. ]

It's a building that houses thousands of books for people to borrow, read, and return when they're finished reading. A book is a collection of paper pages with writing on them, about this big. [ John indicates the size of a book with his hands. ] Sometimes they tell fictional stories, sometimes factual accounts of various subjects.

[bigpoofymammoth]

So what kind of stories and accounts do people read in those books?

[aimsforknees]

[ John couldn't even begin explaining the breadth of subjects a library contains. ]

Some stories are about knights and castles, some about spaceships, some about everyday modern or historical occurrences. There's sections on gardening, cooking, science, history. If you can think about it then probably someone wrote a book about it.

[bigpoofymammoth]

[Manny listens to John's explanation carefully. The mammoth doesn’t exactly understand concepts like 'spaceships', but at least he gets the idea.]

Sounds like humans had gone a long way from telling stories on cave paintings.

[aimsforknees]

[ A really, really, really long way. ]

Some books take days to read. Depends on the length and complexity of the subject.