In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Sex in the Stacks 

Just ignore the woman behind the curtain. She's not really there there.

I've updated my website. I've added a PDF of The Salmon Mysteries: A Re-Imagining of the Demeter and Persephone Myth. You are welcome to go to the website and download it for your own use (unless your use is to sell it or publish it). It is still a work in progress that I probably won't get to for a while. (I've put a link to it in the right column on this blog, too.) I also posted the first chapter of Compassion Fatigues, a novel in progress—so much in progress that it was taken directly from my yellow pad: I didn't read it or even spellcheck it before putting it up. How is that for perfect trust? Just trying to get things done so that I can take those days off...

Tomorrow I'm working all day at the library with Mario. It should be fun. This is quite unusual. Because we're married, working in a branch together is usually a no-no, but they couldn't find anyone else to work tomorrow, so they made an exception. We have promised not to make-out or anything. *sigh*

Stop me if you've heard this anecdote before. This was back in the days when libraries had card catalogues. Reach back into the fog of time and see if you can recall. In the Bandon library where we lived twenty plus years ago, if you looked up "sex" in the catalogue, you would find a card that read "For Sex: See the Librarian." I swear this is true. (I'm remembering this correctly, aren't I, Kevin?) Apparently she kept the books on sex behind the desk. I never asked. I just looked at the card and giggled. It was soon after that I decided to go to library school...

OK. Time for bed.

May You Embrace in Beauty!
Posted by: Kim Antieau / 7/15/2005 11:00:00 PM
2 comments

2 Comments:

Actually, that was a story I heard about the Ft. Worth Public Library when I worked there. I've told that story many times over the years! We were much more enlightened in Bandon.

By Blogger kevin, at 4:03 PM  

Kevin, I remember Susie telling us that story about a previous librarian at Bandon. Weird how memory works sometimes!

By Anonymous Mario, at 5:21 PM  

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