The Secretary had told him he couldn’t become a Guardian of the Library until he’d read that book. “It’s just one book,” he said, “but it’s like nothing you’ve read before. This is the mother of all banned books. Listen carefully. They might catch you reading a banned book and make you pledge never to do it again. But not this one. If you get caught with this book, you’ll disappear. You won’t exist anymore. It’ll be as if you were never there in the first place.”
