A week or so ago, I walked into the Rawlings Library and up the staircase to the second floor. The man at the librarian’s desk there noticed me and said, “Hi! Can I help you?”

Bookshelves behind him and to the left and right of him, and really all around him: computer science, dictionaries, physics, mathmatics, science fiction, philosophy, biography, mystery, poetry, essays, astronomy, travel, carpentry, law, medicine, botany, cookbooks, economics, humor, sociology.

Was he……Claude?