Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Fforde, Jasper.  Thursday Next in First Among Sequels (New York: Viking, c2007) 363 p.
As Thursday goes in and out of her own books, more information about the Great Library is revealed.

Because there are very few authors whose names begin with Q, X, and Z, floors seventeen, twenty-four and twenty-six were relatively empty and thus free for other purposes. The seventeenth floor housed the Mispeling Vyrus Farst Respons Groop, the twenty-fourth floor was used essentially for storage, and the twenty sixth was where the legislative body that governs the BookWorld had taken up residence: the Council of Genres....
"The Great Library looks smaller from the outside," observed Thursday5, staring out the window at the rain-streaked exterior.
She was right. The corridors in the library below could be as long as two hundred miles in each direction, expandable upon requirements, but from the outside the library looked more akin to the Chrysler Building, liberally decorated with stainless-steel statuary and measuring less than two hundred yards along each face. And even though we were only on the twenty-sixth floor, it looked a great deal higher. I had once been to the top of the 120-story Goliath Tower at Goliathopolis, and this seemed easily as high as that. (p. 52-53).

The Cheshire Cat has now assumed command of Text Grand Central and communicates by means of a mobilefootnoterphone.

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