Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Fforde, Jasper. Something Rotten (New York: Penguin, 2005) 385 p.
The librarian Cheshire Cat make a brief appearance with some crucial information.

When he first started working in Alice in Wonderland he was known as the Cheshire Cat, but the authorities moved the Cheshire county boundaries, and he thus became the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, but that was a bit of a mouthful, so he was know more affectionately as the Cat formerly known as Cheshire or, more simply, the Cat. His real name was Archibald, but that was reserved for his mother when she was cross with him.
He worked very closely with us at Jurisfiction, where he was in charge of the Great Library, a cavernous and almost infinite depository of every book ever written. But to call the Cat a librarian would be an injustice. He was an überlibrarian—he knew about all the books in his charge. When they were being read, by whom—everything. (p. 257).

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