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Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a librarian. Height: a little over less than it takes. Weight: in the neighborhood of an ice cold day in history. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we’re going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Melvil Dui from another galaxy and another time. This is the Library Zone:

(Close shot of Chase as seen over Frontier Girl’s shoulder. His eyes narrow.)

Chase: What’s the matter, Frontier Girl? What’s going on?

(Reverse angle looking toward her. Her lips tremble.)

Frontier Girl: I…I finally deciphered their language. All of it. I read their book.

(Close shot a suspended speaker overhead. A Librarian’s metallic voice rings out.)

Librarian’s voice: Please move ahead. You’re holding up our departure. Kindly move ahead.

(Cut to: Two shot Chase and Frontier Girl)

Chase: Well?

Frontier Girl: Mr. Chase…Mr. Chase, the first page is just a collection of English words with their own translation. But the rest of the book…the rest of the book — It’s a cookbook!

Chase: Geschmäcke wie Huhn!

The recollections of one Darren Chase, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert, the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a make-believe mental state to an ingredient in someone’s soup. It’s tonight’s bill of fare from the Library Zone.

More for your perusal:

Dewey, M. (1883). A classification and subject index for cataloging and arranging books, pamflets, papers, clippings and notes: Adapted equally to the largest public library or the smallest private collection, scrapbook or index rerums.

Knight, D. F. (1976). The best of Damon Knight. New York: N. Doubleday.

Knight, D. F. (1977). Turning points: Essays on the art of science fiction. New York: Harper & Row.

Melville Dewey. OCLC.org (http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/biography/)

Serling, R. (2005). The twilight zone. Season 3. Chatsworth, CA: Distributed by Image Entertainment.

To Serve Man. Internet Movie Database. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734684/)

Twilight Zone. To Serve Man. CBS.com. (http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649562032&pid=EhJkGeNGuUqJfc9CCfD81h6TpxCIglq1&play=true&cc=2)

WTF? (http://www.childrenofthecode.org/code-history/dewey.htm)