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I went to the library today. There's an impractically large study room on the top floor that only contains eight small square tables. Today all eight tables were occupied. Since I didn't want to intrude upon someone else's privacy and the idea of sitting on the floor seemed uncomfortable, I borrowed a chair from one of the tables and moved it over to the wall and read there for about half an hour. After half an hour, a security guard approached me and said that patrons weren't allowed to move the furniture. I tried to argue with him, but he reminded me that he didn't make the rules so I put the chair back. A woman sitting at one of the tables noticed this, and invited me to sit across from her. I read there for another half hour, during which time neither of us spoke. The woman finished her studying around the same time I finished the chapter I was reading, and on my way out I noticed a man who had taken a chair away from one of the eight tables. He was sitting against the study room's far wall and reading a newspaper. Before leaving the building, I decided to check out a volume of short stories I had partially read as an ebook. As far back as I can remember, the circulation desk of the library has been on the second floor, but today I discovered that it had been moved to the lobby. I asked the clerk (there's only one clerk now, since they've added a self-checkout system) how long the circulation desk has been on the ground floor, and she told me it's been like this for over five years now. I had no recollection of this. The first thing I did after getting home was to read the first story in the book I had checked out, and after finishing it I turned on my computer and opened up /lit/. The first thread I saw contained a post referencing the exact story I had just read.

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