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October 3 - October 10, 2023
but Claire lived by the firm moral philosophy that one could never have too many pockets, too many books, or too much tea.
“A lie. A dream. Good stories are both,”
I’m glad I’m here! I’ll be the last librarian, for all I care. Think of it: what is more boring than paradise?
We think stories are contained things, but they’re not. Ask the muses. Humans, stories, tragedies, and wishes—everything leaves ripples in the world. Nothing we do is not felt; that’s a comfort. Nothing we do is not felt; that’s a curse.
“Theaters traditionally always closed for at least one day a week, leaving on the ghostlight, to appease the ghosts. To allow them one day on the stage to perform their acts. To live and love and hate and triumph on the stage like the living.”
In the minds of its believers, Heaven must be perfect. Absent nothing, regretting nothing, wanting nothing. It makes sense, then, that Heaven has no wing of our library. What is a story without want, without desire, without need? Librarian Gregor Henry, 1896 CE
The book haunted like a ghost in her head, coloring moods until she shook herself from it.
She held my leash, as I was her apprentice, and she made decisions that seemed so effortless—thoughtless—to me. I judged her for it. But I understand now. The leash gave me something to pull against. To argue. To form my own opinions, but never bear any of the risk of the choice. It’s easy to be brave on a leash.
Books are knowledge weaponized. And what weapons you cannot steal, you must burn.
The pain in death isn’t the dying. It’s the wounds we leave in our wake.”
Might be, the unwritten have an idea or two of their own on how their story should go. Might be, they’d have reason to be angry. Pray they never wake up. Librarian Fleur Michel, 1798 CE THE
