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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