Post by theboyinadress on Sept 24, 2015 9:18:57 GMT -6
With the obligation that I'd leave my raincoat, sunglasses and trilby hat at home,
I accompanied my wife to the Main-Library today.
As she browsed, I hunted for the mystery-person that has alluded Hernando's
Hideaway and probably, the Library Policeman.
I walked the lines of shelves and wondered how this person's mind worked and
what it required.
'Pirates!' a big book that's cover showed pastel-coloured daubings of some type
of seaship. Page 50 circled.
Then I went to Greece and grabbed a book that's title shouted out to me in it's
composition. Page 50 circled.
Rome...? Nope, not this one that DIDN'T have a title in the form of a statement.
No mark.
(It's obvious I can't remember the titles, nuh?!)
But I could see a pattern. If the book held a title that wasn't 'sexy' -like...
'HE KILLED FOR THE LOVE OF HER' or 'MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP' or 'BEAST OF
THE MOORS' our enigma-person wouldn't do his graffiti-thing.
I left history as I knew the '50 Ringer' had been there before and decided to
look at the problem in a 'test-like' manner. Is this person a male...? What is
their preference? What can his selection of books tell me?
I found a book called 'Wolf Man' that told of a long-ago crime and sure enough,
50 was circled. But this time, at the bottom. Another book called out to me about
being the only survivor to a series of murders. 50 circled.
The Fishing Section. Come on now, surely you won't find... There's a book that
states it can advise you on how to catch monster fish. Page 50 circled.
You want pets...? The Pets section had a book about caring for a Red Setter and
the page called 50...? marked with a ring.
With the exception of a couple of books I deliberately looked at, they all had
circles around them and the rule of 'Thou Shalt Not Deface The Number If It's At
The Bottom' was ignored in many cases.
Two of 'em doing it...?
After speaking to another employee of the Library about the problem, she was
accommodating as she re-shelved the books my wife had returned and during
our chat, she flicked the pages and I could see her expression change.
'They're on every page 50...!' she exclaimed as she leafed through the books and
snatching one off the shelf that seemed to 'over-sell' the book within it's title,
I answered 'look at this, he or she seems to judge the book by it's cover!'
There was a small selection of books about rearing children and I took a quick
look among the larger, more serious-looking books there. Nothing.
Anyway, in my opinion, the person is a 'He' He's white and around 55-65 years
of age. He may have been married in the past, but now lives alone.
He sees himself being left behind, but doesn't consider himself shallow enough
to have to run in any kind of race that most social animals do.
He believes his garnering of knowledge will give him standing when interacting
with his peers and so, this may mean he's a social-ish person. Since he believes
impressing members of the opposite sex is a remote opportunity, he seeks to
gain admiration from men and probably men of his own age.
Also, due to the time of day that the Library is open, I would dare to suggest
he has either a disability, he's retired or maybe on welfare.
He seems to like fishing -or likes the idea of some fish being seen as monsters.
(Wels, Catfish, Oarfish and others have sometimes been mistaken as sea and lake
monsters in the past)
If the latter is true, then he seeks a mystery, but a mystery in the real world.
Knowing the amount of Loch Ness, Ufo, ghosts and goblin websites out there, our
chap may not have access to the internet.
He keeps a dog and tends to choose informative books within a dark-set of genres
that offers a hint of it's contents within the title. In hind-sight, the borrowing of the
dog book may have been to obtain information to use in his social interactions.
If he has a dog, then this is the only one that truly understands him.
There's a naivety within him that makes him fall for a product or an idea because of it's
fascia-value. He sees books labeled with words like 'Wolf' -which he sees as a dangerous
lonely predator and in his imaginary world, he's that... if he wanted to be.
He perceives words like 'Monster, Wolf-Man, Dark and Killer' has words that are
enticing to him and he must 'mark' these books with his own ackowledgement.
It's as if he sees himself as the predator that chose not to be.
'Pirates' are devil-may-care folk of the high seas and our man may believe a clue of
treasure...(some mystery someone else has mssed?) within the pages. It could be
that with the recent movies made about the topic, he wants the down-to-earth-truth
to relate to his friends.
If we ignore the poisoner books, the acid-bath killers and the rest of the morbid
characters of our past, the historical literature he chooses seems to lean towards
the brutality of certain empires. What tickles his fancy there, I have no idea.
So I'll be urging my wife to speed-read through her books and hopefully, I can
continue the investigation!
I'm definitely wearing my coat-collar up next time!
I accompanied my wife to the Main-Library today.
As she browsed, I hunted for the mystery-person that has alluded Hernando's
Hideaway and probably, the Library Policeman.
I walked the lines of shelves and wondered how this person's mind worked and
what it required.
'Pirates!' a big book that's cover showed pastel-coloured daubings of some type
of seaship. Page 50 circled.
Then I went to Greece and grabbed a book that's title shouted out to me in it's
composition. Page 50 circled.
Rome...? Nope, not this one that DIDN'T have a title in the form of a statement.
No mark.
(It's obvious I can't remember the titles, nuh?!)
But I could see a pattern. If the book held a title that wasn't 'sexy' -like...
'HE KILLED FOR THE LOVE OF HER' or 'MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP' or 'BEAST OF
THE MOORS' our enigma-person wouldn't do his graffiti-thing.
I left history as I knew the '50 Ringer' had been there before and decided to
look at the problem in a 'test-like' manner. Is this person a male...? What is
their preference? What can his selection of books tell me?
I found a book called 'Wolf Man' that told of a long-ago crime and sure enough,
50 was circled. But this time, at the bottom. Another book called out to me about
being the only survivor to a series of murders. 50 circled.
The Fishing Section. Come on now, surely you won't find... There's a book that
states it can advise you on how to catch monster fish. Page 50 circled.
You want pets...? The Pets section had a book about caring for a Red Setter and
the page called 50...? marked with a ring.
With the exception of a couple of books I deliberately looked at, they all had
circles around them and the rule of 'Thou Shalt Not Deface The Number If It's At
The Bottom' was ignored in many cases.
Two of 'em doing it...?
After speaking to another employee of the Library about the problem, she was
accommodating as she re-shelved the books my wife had returned and during
our chat, she flicked the pages and I could see her expression change.
'They're on every page 50...!' she exclaimed as she leafed through the books and
snatching one off the shelf that seemed to 'over-sell' the book within it's title,
I answered 'look at this, he or she seems to judge the book by it's cover!'
There was a small selection of books about rearing children and I took a quick
look among the larger, more serious-looking books there. Nothing.
Anyway, in my opinion, the person is a 'He' He's white and around 55-65 years
of age. He may have been married in the past, but now lives alone.
He sees himself being left behind, but doesn't consider himself shallow enough
to have to run in any kind of race that most social animals do.
He believes his garnering of knowledge will give him standing when interacting
with his peers and so, this may mean he's a social-ish person. Since he believes
impressing members of the opposite sex is a remote opportunity, he seeks to
gain admiration from men and probably men of his own age.
Also, due to the time of day that the Library is open, I would dare to suggest
he has either a disability, he's retired or maybe on welfare.
He seems to like fishing -or likes the idea of some fish being seen as monsters.
(Wels, Catfish, Oarfish and others have sometimes been mistaken as sea and lake
monsters in the past)
If the latter is true, then he seeks a mystery, but a mystery in the real world.
Knowing the amount of Loch Ness, Ufo, ghosts and goblin websites out there, our
chap may not have access to the internet.
He keeps a dog and tends to choose informative books within a dark-set of genres
that offers a hint of it's contents within the title. In hind-sight, the borrowing of the
dog book may have been to obtain information to use in his social interactions.
If he has a dog, then this is the only one that truly understands him.
There's a naivety within him that makes him fall for a product or an idea because of it's
fascia-value. He sees books labeled with words like 'Wolf' -which he sees as a dangerous
lonely predator and in his imaginary world, he's that... if he wanted to be.
He perceives words like 'Monster, Wolf-Man, Dark and Killer' has words that are
enticing to him and he must 'mark' these books with his own ackowledgement.
It's as if he sees himself as the predator that chose not to be.
'Pirates' are devil-may-care folk of the high seas and our man may believe a clue of
treasure...(some mystery someone else has mssed?) within the pages. It could be
that with the recent movies made about the topic, he wants the down-to-earth-truth
to relate to his friends.
If we ignore the poisoner books, the acid-bath killers and the rest of the morbid
characters of our past, the historical literature he chooses seems to lean towards
the brutality of certain empires. What tickles his fancy there, I have no idea.
So I'll be urging my wife to speed-read through her books and hopefully, I can
continue the investigation!
I'm definitely wearing my coat-collar up next time!