Sunday, August 31, 2008

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting

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catalogue-files laid out like the spokes of a wheel. In its hub, beneath a suspended sign which declaredTHE FINAL SCIENCE IS LIBRARY , a large metal-cornered glass case stood empty but for its black-velvet bed. Anastasia gasped. "Itis gone!"
She meant the Scroll, ordinarily exhibited there. I twinged with distress: if it had been lost or stolen, to restore it to its place could take Founder knew how long! I insisted we learn what happened to it before pursuing our private which might have to be put aside anyhow if duty called.
"Maybe that's what the excitement's about," I suggested unhappily.
There being however no one in the room except ourselves, Anastasia pointed out that her mother was in the best position to answer this question as well as the other, since her office was adjacent to the card-files; she proposed we go to her at once, before she too should join the apparent exodus from Tower Hall; Anastasia would introduce me merely as the new Candidate for Grand-Tutorhood, and I could interview our mother undistracted on the matter of the Scroll before we disclosed our other concerns. I saw no alternative and so agreed, though with some misgivings; the gossip one had heard about Virginia

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