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fandomhigh2022-10-25 10:06 am
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Libraries and Books: Highlights and Dangers, Tuesday
The classroom today was teeming with black cats, one white fluffy cat watching them all disdainfully from her perch on the desk.
"Well," Jon said, looking around, "I did actually have a lesson plan for today, but I'm disinclined to fight the island. This one," he indicated the white cat, "is Issa. I don't know if the others have names they'll tell us.
"There's actually a proud tradition of library cats, dating back to ancient Egypt. Mice, other rodents, and vermin can be destructive to texts, and cats keep the rodent and vermin population down. There are currently about three hundred known library cats around the world, though these days many of them are more used to help calm and entertain customers than they are as mousers. Cats, as some other pets, are known to decrease stress, which also helps in retaining information."
A cat came up and rubbed on his leg, and Jon reached down to pet it. Issa huffed. "Black cats were seen as good luck until the Middle Ages, when they started to be associated with evil and disease. To this day, black cats stand a worse chance of getting adopted in shelters, which is entirely unfair to these beautiful things."
He cleared his throat. "Anyway, I doubt we'll be getting much done today, so enjoy the cats, and I'll answer any questions about them or their relationship to books and libraries that you have."
"Well," Jon said, looking around, "I did actually have a lesson plan for today, but I'm disinclined to fight the island. This one," he indicated the white cat, "is Issa. I don't know if the others have names they'll tell us.
"There's actually a proud tradition of library cats, dating back to ancient Egypt. Mice, other rodents, and vermin can be destructive to texts, and cats keep the rodent and vermin population down. There are currently about three hundred known library cats around the world, though these days many of them are more used to help calm and entertain customers than they are as mousers. Cats, as some other pets, are known to decrease stress, which also helps in retaining information."
A cat came up and rubbed on his leg, and Jon reached down to pet it. Issa huffed. "Black cats were seen as good luck until the Middle Ages, when they started to be associated with evil and disease. To this day, black cats stand a worse chance of getting adopted in shelters, which is entirely unfair to these beautiful things."
He cleared his throat. "Anyway, I doubt we'll be getting much done today, so enjoy the cats, and I'll answer any questions about them or their relationship to books and libraries that you have."
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