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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:33:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      WHTMITL6
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What Happened To Me In The Library 6
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16)  Brushing the feather away to make way for my own <work>,
ignoring the possible significance of this residue left by some
wing`ed visitor, I explore my bibliography of Swedish Twentieth
Century Fiction and find, to my surprise, the following very
useful items which concern, though in a marginal way, the
literary production of the elusive authoress, Agnes von
Krusenstjerna da Bunerrosa:
   a)  "Tendencias Racistas na Literatura Infantil e
        Juvenil da Suecia", which concerns, as the title
        indicates, racism in the juvenile literature of
        the country, and has a specific reference to the
        anti-Armenian slant of Agnes' early novels.
   b)  "Brage, concordia och V.V.V.: Nagot om vara forma
        litterara gymnasistforeningar", a fascinating
        treatise on the role of literary societies in high
        schools of Sweden, which I find in the NCSU collection,
        donated some years ago by the second cousin, once
        removed, of Father Svejnam Peetgrin, a priest from
        Stockholm who had documents to prove that he was the
        bastard son of another priest who claimed to have
        baptized the baby Agnes in spite of her illegitimate
        birth. Father Peetgrin, it seems, had a parishoner,
        a descendant of Armenians in Stockholm, who went to
        library school in the United States and got his first
        job at the D. H. Hill Library.  Small world.
        The "Nagot om vara forma..." contains, as it turns out
        an interesting passage on Agnes' membership in the
        literary society devoted to the study of Portuguese
        pornographic novels.....  whether this is the cause or
        the effect of her mother's sojourn with the Ambassador,
        I am not sure.
    c)  "En neurotiker som psykolog: Nagra jakt-tagelser i von
        Krusenstjerna roman _Noitejnam oct Persium_", a very
        interesting psychoanalytical critique of one of Agnes'
        early novels, which places her interest in perverse
        practices in the international community of Stockholm
        squarely in the center of the beginnings of revolutionary
        Marxist literary circles that were beginning to deal with
        questions of textuality and intertextuality in the early
        years of the century.
  All in all, the resources of the library are more than adequate,
  and I leave my study with the intention of going to my office to
  write up my notes on the computer.
  .
  17)  As the elevator door closes, I hear behind me, in the hallway,
  on the other side of the door, the faint clickety clack of very
  tall black patent leather heels.  Must not be diverted from my
  research interests by the wierdos hanging around the library.  On
  to my office, where I find the letter from the Library Office,
  informing me that I must renew my study, and including this
  wonderful paragraph:
  .
  "As I have indicated in earlier memoranda, the University Library
  Committee has asked that we monitor use of the faculty studies
  through periodic surveys and to use the results in determining
  future renewals of study assignments.  We will conduct these surveys
  randomly throughout the semester.  The survey will consist of our
  placing a dated memorandum to each assignee of a study on the desk
  in those rooms, asking that you sign, date, and return them to the
  Library Office.  We will maintain a record of the number of days it
  takes to receive a response and use that information as indication of
  the frequency of use an assignee makes of the study.  These responses
  are being entered into a database which will be used when making
  decisions regarding renewals of study assignments.  So be looking
  out for the brightly colored survey forms over the next few months
  and respond quickly."
  .
  There is another notice from the library, indicating which 347
  jounals they have cancelled this month because of lack of funds.
  .
 18)  The telephone rings, and I answer and hear the voice of a
 student who identifies himself as a reporter for the Technician,the
 campus newspaper:
    "Professor Smith, are you aware that there is some kind of
     problem in the library that they say maybe you have had some kind
     of involvement in.?
 I do what I never do....  I just hang up the phone, and sit down
 to type up the results of my research, in preparation for posting
 the true history of Agnes von Krusenstjerna da Bunerrosa.  The
 telephone rings again and I do what I never do....  I just dont
 answer it.
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