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1 " I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps. "
― Marilyn Johnson , This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
2 " He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. "
3 " He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. "
