Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Many Are Culled, But Few Are--

Library books are culled, weeded, de-selected, removed. Why so many synonyms for a single and perhaps straightforward process? Librarians may feel uncomfortable about moving books from their collection so cast for euphemisms that make this action more tolerable. Then, too, they might have before them the spectre of Nicholas Baker.

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