A well-stocked and well-organised library is, of course, vital to one's defences against Saxon hordes. Should you find yourself lacking some vital information (well-known weaknesses of Saxon armour, for example), you can wander into your library, where you will be pointed instantly to the right Dewey number, and there's your info. Contrast the library-impaired King of the Britons who is still wandering around the wrong section, finding only out-of-date pamphlets on mead-making, when the Saxons attack his castle and all is lost.
Had he been a king with a good librarian, though, all would not have been lost even at this point. A good children's librarian could have invited the Saxon hordes to a storytime, and have diverted their aggression into pretending to be big, scary animals, and perhaps even slip in a moral about how Overrunning Other People's Kingdoms Is Wrong. An old-fashioned, stereotypical librarian would just have gone "Shh!", sternly told them that their weapons were overdue, and caused them to slink silently away and never, ever, ever come back.
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Date: 2009-01-17 09:49 pm (UTC)Had he been a king with a good librarian, though, all would not have been lost even at this point. A good children's librarian could have invited the Saxon hordes to a storytime, and have diverted their aggression into pretending to be big, scary animals, and perhaps even slip in a moral about how Overrunning Other People's Kingdoms Is Wrong. An old-fashioned, stereotypical librarian would just have gone "Shh!", sternly told them that their weapons were overdue, and caused them to slink silently away and never, ever, ever come back.