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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