Meep.

The Dewey Decimal System is following me.

I don't know why.

I caught it going through my mail last week.

I like the Dewey Decimal System. I wish it would follow me. lucky girl.

Really? I'm not all that fond of it. I really like the Library of Congress system better. I think that's mostly because it drives me nuts to see poetry listed in "non fiction".

Erm, unless we're not talking about the actual numeric system.. ;-)

I KNOW! We need to campaign our respective governments to have that changed. What the hell.

Dear Mr. President (or PM),

So much depends
upon

The placement
of poems

Not in non
fiction

Beside the study
guides

I *heart* you. That is all. Am unable to be wittier than that.

talcott rocks my socks.

So if fiction were placed in it, where would that put it?

See, maybe I'm just weird, I thought the Congress system was eaiser to understand than Dewey *shrug*

Gah, althought that give me more reasons not to be fond of it...
Have there been any campaigns to change those, or is the system seen as being too widespread to be revised?

This discussion brought back some fond memories from college. The main stacks used the Library of college system. Beneath them was the secondary stack of older books using the Dewey Decimal System. I just went down there one day to look around and found the really cool dewey decimalized fiction section. I became very happy dicovering beautiful and rare editions of the works of James Branch Cabell, H.P. Lovecraft, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

I fell so in love with the edition of Cabell's Line of Love illustrated by Howard Pyle, that I told them that I lost it and paid the fine so I could keep it. No one else had taken the book out in the last 20 years so I didn't feel that guilty. Not that guilty but the guilt is still with me.

"a trained monkey learned that system in a matter of hours...recode it!"

Anyone else seen Party Girl?

yay parker posey!!!!� that flick was a good one;JUST when you thought her character was a totally vapid bitch, she actually turned it around!!

I LOVE her...I'll see anything with her in it but that one and Waiting for Guffman are my faves.

wasn't that her freaking out about the bee in Best In Show?