Bookride describes a passage from a 2009 book Books Do Furnish a Room, by Leslie Geddes Brown: There is a great shot of designer Sallie Trout who built shelves in an inaccessible stairwell which she reaches by a bosun’s chair fastened to a chain hoist hanging from the ceiling above.
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Case report: She pees in a cup in the library
Miss Conduct [who is also, under her own name, the psychology editor of the Annals of Improbable Research] considers a difficult case. The person who brought it to her attention wrote: “It has come to my and several co-workers’ attention that a woman who works in our office is locking herself in the library and […]