Alone with thousands of books . . .

I spent all day Monday in Westminster, Maryland, at the Random House warehouse, signing books to be shipped out to bookstores across the country.  Later I was given a tour of the humongous building.  They have what they call their Indiana Jones room.  Remember the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they wheel the ark into the cavernous storage facility?  Well, they have one of those rooms in this warehouse.  It's so huge that you can't see the end of the aisle—which is dark because it's so far down.  The room is several floors high, too, with thousands of crates of books.   Anyone working in that part of the warehouse has to have a repelling license in the event the machine breaks down so they aren't stuck up in the machinery.  If I was ever going to get locked up in a room, I'd request this one (so long as there was sufficient light to read!).