RL Stine
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I just noticed Claire is nowhere near maximum floof. I predict that will change...
I'm a librarian, and can never figure out why people get so racked up about losing books or not returning them on time. They come to us weeping, with rent garments and ashes in their hair, saying "I am so so so sorry, my apartment burned down with all my possessions, and I was only able to save one of your books, and then they wouldn't let me out of the burn ward to return it. Please don't hit me." And we're like "Dude, that is copy 3 of 5, and no one has checked any of the other copies out while you had this one out. Buy us replacements for the lost books on Amazon, and give us $1.75 late fee for this one. We will overlook the smoke damage and the bits of charred flesh stuck to the cover. Et ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Dewey, et Cutter, et Ranganathan." Then they cry. What is all that about anyway? The real problem with losing R.L. Stine books, or any horror stories, is that you almost always lose them on purpose so that you won't scare yourself reading them anymore. Secretly, you know where they are. You have to spend immense amounts of psychic energy hiding their location from yourself. You have to always unconsciously keep track of where the book is, so as to never accidentally find it again. The longer you do this, the more frightening the hidden book becomes. There is a copy of Frank Belknap Long's _The Hounds of Tindalos_ inside a wall of the house I grew up in. I can feel it looking at me. It knows where I am. I can never go back.
I think it probably triggers the same response we have to having lost a friend’s possession. We view the library as a valued entity in our lives, and losing a book feels like a violation of the relationship, leading us to fear that we’ve “hurt” someone close to us.
"Smif stopped tarring and feathering students in 1956" ...Only officially.
They moved on to lime and cement?
I'm sure that fed into Marten's insecurity about his job at some point. "Oh no, will they let me keep working here if they know I lost a book? Of course they wouldn't. I need to bury my dark secret. They would never want to employ a BOOK-LOOSER"
Someday he get promoted and sent out to recover lost books, and guess what his first assignment is?
My family had like 10 RL stine books when i was growing up. I don't remember us buying any of them.
RL Stine Books are kind of free floating entities. They come and go at their leisure. Some kid probably found two thirds of an RL Stine trilogy in his garage the same day Marten lost his book.
Nice to see the TEH shirt back again.
I've been reading QC since the beginning and I just now realized the "TEH shirt" is pronounced exactly like "t-shirt". Heh.
Oh jesus Martin don't confess a crime like that to your LIBRARY SCIENCE GIRLFRIEND.
Considering he works in a library and probably paid the fine its a minor crime and he paid his debt to library society
Real Life Stine