Saturday 1 May 2010

A metaphor for a friend

Books Don't Stay Open Forever

This is my advice to a dear friend, that although you are impatient, and want your answers now, the book won't stay open forever. You will get to the end of it, get your answers and you will close the book (and hopefully never, ever read it again.)

Ask your librarian. That's why library books become overdue. People aren't finished finding out what has happened, or they forget about the answers they were looking for because life goes on and there is fun to be had, or work to be done elsewhere. In the end they no longer need to know what happened in that other story. It becomes obsolete.

I am your librarian.


Originally posted: Thursday, 10 December 2009

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