Nothing delights a Dewey editor more than a snippet of Dewey in the midst of leisure reading. We’ve suffered nearly a year-long drought of Dewey teasers--imagine then my delight last night just before drifting off to sleep to encounter the following passage in a novel I’m reading:
Reshelving books, he began to notice plays. Toward the end of Dewey Decimal 822, Walter became acquainted with a two-foot stretch of small blue clothbound books with gilt titles on the spines. The plays of Shakespeare. Dewey teaser rules are here, and teasers of the past can be found in the Dewey blog category, DDC in arts and culture. The first person to identify the source wins a citation in the Dewey Hall of Fame. Extra points are awarded for citing the WorldCat.org entry!
I dipped into my copy of Fierce Pajamas (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46858226) last night and rejected "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" -- so I better guess that.
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Posted by: Contemporary Artist Anna Meenaghan | September 24, 2009 at 08:07 AM