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August 12, 2006
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision
"These," the Mock Turtle told Alice, "are the different branches of Arithmetic"
"Our school master was an old Turtle" he explained, "we used to call him Tortoise"
"Why did you call him Tortoise if he wasn't one?" Alice asked.
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily, "you really are very dull"
Susan Hill has observed this week that much of what is happening to our public library service comes through the Looking Glass. Yesterday I was sent three embargoed copies of the Price Waterhouse Cooper report on public libraries which is to be published on Monday. I need to explain to readers why this is an important project, the context of the questions it was supposed to address and how, I am sorry to say, the opportunity it created has gone so horribly wrong. Alice would have recognised the procedures which I shall try to explain in the next few entries.
But for the moment I see a letter from Mr Grimsdyke to Ron in Bloggington
Posted by Tim Coates at August 12, 2006 11:45 AM