Dear colleague,
On lcn 10109488 (The Complete tales of Henry James), which is a
twelve-volume work, you have a piece linked to a part record for a v.13:
XXX Main Libr 813.46 13 v.13 Available
Please could you check your copy and amend the holding? Thanks.
Best wishes,
S.
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Cataloguing god of one of the foremost university libraries in the world.
Get it? Good. Now FIX it!
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I couldn't stop laughing, and as S. is a friend, I emailed him back with:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Maybe it's the very rare v. 13 out of 12 that very few people know about... a ghostly one...
Ixx
(Think "Turn of the Screw")
His response?
Now now. We mustn't mock those poor people who never learnt to count beyond the number of their digits.
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I'm sure that's in the 11th commandment somewhere ("Mockest not those who should be lost to natural selection"), but as I'm already coveting Ruth's pencil skirt, I might as well keep heading down that slippery slope...
(Think "Turn of the Screw")
His response?
Now now. We mustn't mock those poor people who never learnt to count beyond the number of their digits.
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I'm sure that's in the 11th commandment somewhere ("Mockest not those who should be lost to natural selection"), but as I'm already coveting Ruth's pencil skirt, I might as well keep heading down that slippery slope...
4 comments:
But as a not-so-good Catholic boy, I always thought the eleventh commandment was 'Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out'...
(In my case, I have experienced limited success in this respect...)
Oh my goodness! Your 11th Commandment cracked me up. :-) I must share that one with friends.
Thanks for popping up back at my place. I've been lurking here and when you stopped commenting at my blog, I wondered if I had offended you somehow. Glad to know that's not the case. :-)
I'm a bit sad I'm no longer on the cataloguing mailing list.... if only because I miss RS's comments.....
Anon - join the club, sweetie!
Reiza - oh, hon, never! Check your blog (Hamotzei, Amen) for a more detailed response. Welcome back, I've missed you over here! I always felt that the commandments were incomplete without a tip of the black hat to Darwin...;-)
Anon2 - RS doesn't post much, so you've not missed much. Yes, those comments did so much to brighten up my day...
Ixx
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