Quotation

But in addition to trying to make the world a quieter place for those trying to read and think, our lybrarians are also trying to keep people from having their tongues cut out or being thrown into jail or set on fire for scribbling the wrong thing on a piece of parchment. Not to mention keeping their writings from being destroyed or locked away. . . . A properly trained lybrarian is one of the most fearless and fearsome beings in the world! . . . There's cataloguing, deception and impersonation, publishing law, stealth and illicit entry, library organization, unarmed combat, research skills, armed combat, book repair, fire and explosives, . . . patron relations, horsemanship, . . . water training, espionage, escape and concealment, meteorology, geography, field survival . . .