Today i joined the John Rylands library and gained entry to the special collections reading room, I got very excited by the formality and beurocracy of it all. After requesting the title on a little slip, someone behind the desks goes and consults the trolls and goblins toiling away in the archives to retrieve your book, which are then presented on some foam supports and a chain of weighted beads to keep the pages flat. Amazing!
My geekiness aside i did have a great time immersed in this little historical literature world. The books smelt so old, it was lovely! I could have stayed for hours, I only made it halfway through my first story, a work by Elizabeth Gaskell called the Grey Woman. This story will form the basis of one of my pieces for the Tales of the Unexpected show. The second piece will be based upon Lewis Carroll's 'The hunting of The Snark'.
Ciao for Now.
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