“It appears,” said the Chief Librarian with glacial irony, “that you have answered your own question.” “But I want to know if I’m right!” the Wonk shouted at him, or at the blithely working servers, or the walls. “Because if so, then … then at least it would all have been … for something.” “Things are not for other things,” the Chief Librarian said. “They are neither good nor bad. They just are. That is what we record here. The things that are.”
