(account deleted) 21 Jul 2012 20:40
Ooh, a big library. Nice. The example books are… endearingly strange.
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(account deleted) 21 Jul 2012 20:40
thanks =D. I like your characterization as 'endearingly strange'
The Library is Accepting Submissions
For those interested, go over to this thread and suggest possible inclusions to a curated list of notable Recovered Volumes
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-566999/opening-of-the-imaginary-library-scp-1986-to-new-ideas
This is how you work something from a story as an SCP: explain it in-universe. Good work :)
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see the footnote, thats my inspiration
or here, for the full text: The Library of Babel
I love it. It reminds me of Borges. Great work.
see above. I've also since added a footnote to the SCP…
I like this, but something irks me about your numbers for recovery-depths in the list of recovered works. You shouldn't do this
Depth of recovery: 2,318m or 2km
but, instead, either scrap the kilometres or put them in brackets. I think your readers are quite capable of telling how many kilometres there are in 2,318m.
Also, while they may be nicely eclectic, the recovered works don't seem to me to be interesting enough for me to really like this.
Something else I've just realised is that, if the tunnel is just 'lined' with books, what the hell is behind them? Dirt? Vacuum? Magical un-space? You haven't answered this question anywhere in the description, but if people have been quite easily yanking books out of the walls — and it doesn't even say if they've been putting them back — it does have an answer.
So yeah. Might go back to a neutral vote until this is less of a sponge.
EDIT: I take back the bit being down about the made-up books. They're actually pretty cool, but my brain didn't pick that up at all on first reading.
I took your advice about m vs km (i put them in brackets), thanks
Doesn't this address your criticism?
The walls of the tunnel are made of limestone. Attempts at breaching them have shown that the tunnel is non-Euclidean: excavating through the floor of the tunnel, for instance, results in a corresponding hole appearing in the ceiling. Attempts at reaching the tunnel at an angle have proven futile as the tunnel appears not to exist unless approached from its entrance.
I friggin love this scp.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
The foreword introduces the work as having won the Noble Prize for obstinance.
and then I upvoted
I have to say, that made me laugh as well. It occurred to me while I was half-asleep.
Includes parables comparing the well-lived life to the Ford Motor Corporation.
I CAN'T UPVOTE THIS AGAIN WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM MEEEE
Is that deliberately spelled "Noble"? I think the joke would work better as "Nobel".
Nice little oddity here. I had some trouble parsing this sentence though:
Guards posing as janitorial staff are to be used armed with non-lethal measures only
Yeah, that was a late addition…ill work on that.
This is fucking phenomenal. I love SCPs that have weird works of art being found or produced or whathaveyou. Thank you, requitefahrenheit, for giving me this gift.
Excellent work. I wonder if one part of this opens into the Discworld Library? Upvoted!
everybody keeps recommending the series to me.
which one should i star with?
The Colour of Magic is the first book, but they are all great. My first one was Mort, but you could almost start with any of them.
I'd start with Guards! Guards! myself, though Mort is also excellent. You really can't do wrong with Discworld.
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