For those of us made with Dewey decimal brains and card catalogue hands books are shelved from left to right top to bottom end of story full stop but books have ever been in different shapes and sizes so what to do if you're a librarian with limited space who would prefer that nobody touch a book or misshelve or mislay or fail to return part of the collection you can put them in special collections with limited hours and restricted access and hand out cotton gloves and forbid pen and ink and the cracking of spines which you can justify for manuscripts and books of a certain age but for the rest there are the stacks usually open access and always jam packed for such spaces books have been shelved in a variety of ways all on shelves of the same height with larger books slid in spines up shelf marks face up to the front but in earlier times books were shelved by size largest and tallest on the bottom shortest and smallest on the top b...

It seems traffic cameras are a drag everywhere in Russia when you've speeded or run a red light you get a letter of happiness in the mail reminding you you've sinned I don't know what they are called here but $365 is quite a toll and must surely evoke more than happiness for those who are used to making those signature California rolling stops and never got used to being ticketed or towed there must be some enjoying the cameras and the chance to change other people's behaviour but I haven't met them not even one perhaps I will one day but in the meantime puzzle over the the psychology of elastic band snaps and salivating dogs and the great battery of stimulus and response to which we are treated in the course of a walk or a jaunt somewhere Kant whether you can go there or even if you can't is slumbering not yet stirred or wakened from the terrors of men who are laws unto themselves I wonder about the race of devils ...