"A good book can wait for a reader hundreds of years. Once lodged in the
Library, it is unexpensive & harmless while it waits."--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson in His Journals, p. 553)
Pity the poor librarian whose duty it is to weed. Then (wouldn't you know it) along comes a reader who asks for the title that the librarian has just, after much delay and procrastination, sent to that library in the sky. If there is an afterlife, maybe this is one of the punishments for librarians who were too zealous in their duties.
