News from the library research department

[aesmael]

syntaxia reports new findings:

I've spent the day in Starbucks, reading through my dissertation and circling mistakes that somehow had managed to escape the conjoined forces and intellects of both my supervisors and me, despite several readings. It must be one of the laws of L-space: In any written body of work, the amount of errors and typos found is directly proportional to the amount of time passed since the completion of the work. From which follows that any written work becomes complete crap if you leave it long enough.

In my own studies I have discovered that shushing is not intended to quiet visitors to the library; rather, it is a crude form of echolocation.

Comments

brilliant :)

[syntaxia.livejournal.com]

Okay, your findings about library echolocation systems is way more significant than mine.

Re: brilliant :)

[syntaxia.livejournal.com]

...or even "your findings (...) are"

And I should stop drinking wine with my dinner.

[mantic-angel.livejournal.com]

*laughs*, yes, and the fall of Rome is now widely understood to be primarily the fault of early 20th century history professors :)

I love learning the strange little laws of reality :)