The gaps in the Dewey Decimal Classification System can
be a source of information, for absence creates negative
shapes and defines as much as presence. By looking at what
is not there we can deduce what is missing.
Have you wondered why Section 217 is missing from the Dewey
Decimal Classification System? Of course you have. Admit
it. It is one of those watercooler questions that we cannot
seem to get away from. Section 216, good and evil, is left
just hanging there, with the obvious follow-up section completely,
mysteriously AWOL.
Where did it go? Why is it missing? This question has plagued
people for years.
Now we know.
Rex Libris himself provided the shocking reason in his autobiography
I, Librarian: Section 217 is for the spell books of unspeakable
power used in the struggle between good and evil. Most libraries
simply don't have the resources to handle the fallout of
stacking the most powerful of these tomes. It is left to
elite library facilities like Middleton to shelve them.
Yet Section 217 is just the tip of the iceberg. Something
sinister is revealed when the omissions of the Dewey Decimal
System are examined in depth. There are too many coincidences,
too many strangely omitted numbers, in too many strategic,
suspicious locations. Section 219, for example, should fall
right after Section 218, which covers humankind. Yet there
is no Section 219!
It would be in use if there was nothing to hide. Yet it
isn't.
There is only one possible, logical explanation: Section
219 covers an alien species which the
world is not yet ready to know about, undoubtably because
of the terrible threat it poses!
It goes on.
Section 237?
Missing.
241?
Missing.
The list of missing Dewey sections goes on and on. Especially
worrisome to the public is the entire section that is missing
in geography, for Sections 920 to 928 are not to be found
on the shelves.
They are skipped over, in their entirety, for what can only
be very dark, madness inducing reasons. Somewhere on this
earth are locations too terrible to know about. Do these
they cover the Mountains of Madness? The dread city of Selene?
The sunken, cyclopean cities of the Cthonians that are said
to litter Antarctica with their malevolent remains? Or perhaps
the very gateway to Hell? Only librarians know for sure,
and so far they have not revealed this information to the
public. Knowing that the very purpose of the librarian is
to freely distribute information, the reason for these omissions
must be compelling.
There is only one place you will discover the answer to
even a few of these questions in a properly managed environment
and manner that will ensure your own physical and spiritual
safety: in the comic book Rex Libris, Public Librarian. Rex
supervises the amount of secret information contained in
every issue.
Which section deals with the history of alien invasions
of planet earth? Which holds the skinny on the supernatural
beasts and soul devourers who have been infiltrating the
ranks of bureaucracy for so long they have evolved into their
own specialized subspecies? Want to know the difference between
a Taxghoul and a Parkingnomic Poltergeist? You'll need to
know where to look in the library. All these books are at
Middleton, either on the surface or hidden deep beneath the
earth.
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