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[UPDATE] Quirkyacuity, October 7.

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thrush
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Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: Oslo, Norway

[UPDATE] Quirkyacuity, October 7.

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Trip to the library
Category: me
Time: 04:31 PM

OK, so it's not that I'm unreliable. Well, maybe it is that I'm unreliable but, hey, I've spent a great deal of my time recently comforting a woman who tried to kill herself. (Incidentally, Sylvia's doing a lot better, I think. I had a note and a couple of pictures from her yesterday from her aunt's place in the country. She had a little colour in her cheeks and wasn't looking quite so thin. We're planning to meet up when she comes back to the city for a visit sometime.) Anyway so I've been busy, what with one thing and another, you know, and it's not that I'm unreliable as I said to Cumber when he called yesterday to find out why he was still holding onto this book for me that I hadn't yet made time to go and examine. Yeah. In no way unreliable at all.

So, anyway, yesterday afternoon I finally made it along to the central archives to take a look at this book. And, yeah, Cumber had been quite right to say there was a problem. The thing's not just water-damaged, bent at the edges, a little mildewed... whole pages have been practically erased. No one knows how it happened, because this is part of the permanent, non-circulating collection and is tagged so it can't be taken out of the building, and there hasn't been a flood. It's weird - some of the pages are really badly damaged while others are completely fine. As if some idiot had poured a bottle of water over it repeatedly. Cumber and I flipped through the pages together shaking our heads.

It was nice to see Cumber again, actually - we went to nursery school together, and have been part of the same loose group of friends for a while now. We share an affection for books and bookish things; in a sweet way I think he was quite shocked by what had happened to this book.
He said: "I suppose that's it then - it can't be any use to you in this state?"
I said: "Wouldn't say that... I have a friend who reckons he might be able to reconstruct text from a water-damaged book. We'll come tomorrow and take another look if that's OK?"
He looked at me, raised one eyebrow and said: "Tomorrow? That means "several weeks from now", does it?"
So I had to explain to him how I'm really, definitively, not in any way unreliable. Honest.

And to prove that I'm so amazingly reliable, this morning Kurt and I swung by the archives.
Kurt took a look at the pages, using his key to make a test scan - he thinks he can make something of it. Apparently the ink leaves a residue in the paper even when it's washed away. It'll take time, but he thinks he can make it work.
Cumber was slightly hesitant about allowing us to use a room meant for "bona fide researchers" for our work.
I said: "Go on Cumber. We'll only come after-hours and it won't take that long..."
He hesitated.
I said: "Otherwise I'll tell Kurt what they used to call you in nursery...." and grinned. "I promise we won't be too much trouble."
Cumber smiled and agreed.
After he'd left the room, Kurt was quiet for a few minutes, examining the book's binding and taking some preliminary scans. Then he looked up at me and said: "Was it Cucumber?"
I've sworn him to secrecy.

I really, really want to know what's in that book. Hurry up, Kurt!

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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:31 pm

PuzzledPineapple
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 352

[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - 7th Oct

Deleted duplicate entry ---Cassandra

How long do you think that reconstrunction will take? By that time we'll already know all about the 3rd Power having met them and stolen the cube back from them. Assuming they ever had it.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:31 pm

PuzzledPineapple
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 352

Damn, I think you won that by mere seconds.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:33 pm

thrush
Boot

Joined: 19 Apr 2005
Posts: 41
Location: Oslo, Norway

Well, goody! Small victories brighten the day, and so forth. Now I have truly earned a beer Very Happy

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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:42 pm

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