As I mentioned on MDP’s latest Gorey post, when San Francisco's new main library opened, they did away with their card catalogue in order to go to strictly computer searches.The cards were all taken out and volunteers wrote quotes from their favorite books on them, after which the cards were plastered to the walls of several floors. Someone wrote out all of "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (B is for Basil Assaulted by bears. etc...) on several different cards. They're placed randomly and you can spend a very amusing afternoon tracking them all down.
My favorite?
N is for Neville who died of ennui.You can see the whole The Gashlycrumb Tinies here
Neville is my favorite, too. Gorey was brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me love you Peen. I'm powerless to resist.
ReplyDeleteT is for Thombeau who teased up his hair
ReplyDeleteA is for Andrew who hid his affair
P is for Peenee who dressed up like Cher
And J is for Jason, who just didn't care.
ReplyDeleteAnd that spells "tap" in case you didn't notice. Everybody dance!
ReplyDeleteR is for Ronda who dances with flair
ReplyDeleteGod! even your libraries out there sound cool.
ReplyDeleteI'm officially jealous (er)
O sweetie, our library here looks a great deal like the Nordstrom's downtown and frequently doubles as an informal homeless shelter.
ReplyDeleteI always liked the New Orleans main library with its groovy space age architecture.