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Enter a Kite – snoring

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Things

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librarian, Life's Handicap, not a book club, Reading aloud, Rudyard Kipling, The City of Dreadful Night

sleeping-raven-vector-isolated-white-48588759A couple of weeks ago we had the last meeting of Ad Alta Voce, our not-quite-book-club, before parting company for the summer. There were some ten of us, including The Librarian.

Now, you see, The Librarian is a rather rotund, more than middle-aged, yellow-haired lady who Is There Because She Is There. Don’t ask – it’s all very Italian.

The Librarian is also a rather peculiar character and used to dislike Ad Alta Voce quite a bit. For the first year and a half or so, she would grumpily let us in and then sit at her desk or prowl the (very tiny) library, making us jump at intervals by muttering to herself behind the shelves. And it was clear all along that what she muttered about was why, oh why couldn’t we read in our sitting rooms instead of forcing her to work night hours… Continue reading →

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