Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Andrea del Sarto Holy Family

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Rincewind put his shoulder against a trembling bookshelf and forced its rustling volumes back into place with his knees. The noise was terrible.
Books of magic have a sort of life of their own. Some have altogether too much; for example, the first edition of the 'Oook!'[2]
'Right!'
Rincewind, as honorary assistant librarian, hadn't progressed much beyond basic indexing and bananafetching, and he had to admire the way the Librarian ambled among the quivering shelves, here running a black-leather hand over a trembling binding, here comforting a frightened Necrotelicomicon has to be kept between iron plates, the True Arte of Levitatione has spent the last one hundred and fifty years up in the rafters, and Ge Fordge's Compenydyum of Sex Majick is kept in a vat of ice in a room all by itself and there's a strict rule that it can only be read by wizards who are over eighty and, if possible, dead.But even the everyday grimoires and incunabula on the main shelves were as restless and nervy as the inmates of a chicken­house with something rank scrabbling under the door. From their shut covers came a muffled scratching, like claws.'What did you say?' screamed Rincewind.

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