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She Was Brilliant And Joyous And She Believed- Probably Correctly- That Libraries Contain The Answers To All Things, To Everything, And That If You Can't Find The Information You Seek In The Library, Then Such Information Probably Doesn't Exist In This Or Any Parallel Universe Now Or Ever To Be Known. She Was Thoughtful And Kind And She Always Believed The Best Of Everybody. She Was, Above All Else, A Master Librarian And She Knew Where To Find Any Book On Any Subject In The Shortest Possible Time. And She Was Wonderfully Unhinged.

Read Like A Wolf Eats And Write Every Day. Every. Single. Day.

I've Been Reading And Researching Various Aspects Of History - Dickens' London, Nelson's Sea Battles, Magellan's Nautical Explorations, The Weapons And Battles And Key Figures Of The American Civil War - For Most Of My Life. I Pick Up A Book Here Or There Or See A Documentary Or Talk With An Expert In The Subject, And My Curiosity About The One Area Of Study And Discovery Always Leads To Another.

When He Sat Alone In The Darkness And Cried And Was Done, All Done With It, Nothing Had Changed. His Leg Still Hurt, It Was Still Dark, He Was Still Alone And The Self-pity Had Accomplished Nothing.

Patience, He Thought. So Much Of This Was Patience - Waiting, And Thinking And Doing Things Right. So Much Of All This, So Much Of All Living Was Patience And Thinking.