Recently, a friend suggested that I write the world's first ever Dummies' Guides for Libraries, and that is really something that I could sink my mandibles into. I mean, then maybe, on the proceeds, I could finally afford a loft in Williamsburg and a Vespa with Nitrous Toggle and three sensual sibyls from the hinterlands of Long Island and Connecticut.
Reasons to be a Librarian:
1.) You get to act like you know everything; librarians flex their erudite glutes and people listen. More importantly,
2.) As a rule, people who provide people with answers are generally respected by people. There is inherit power,
3.) Not unlike the awe and apprehension which seizes people when oracles verdict the future past. Like a tense of being,
4.) Librarians have to tell people where the bathroom is, they have to gladiator with the copy machine, and tame the patrons into submission.
5.) Moreover, because of the service ethos, interaction dictates success or catastrophe based on how well you can teach patrons to replicate the steps.
6.) And do it themselves as if it were a second nature to them, as if commanding
all those Titles were a function of your fingers.
Spicaresque:
A Spanglish blog dedicated to the works, ruminations, and mongrel pyrotechnics of Yago S. Cura, an Argentine-American poet, translator, publisher & futbol cretin. Yago publishes Hinchas de Poesia, an online literary journal, & is the sole proprietor of Hinchas Press.
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This is such an interesting blog. You are very knowledgeable about this subject. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me and others around you.
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