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I had to read this line in the article twice: "Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next
by UberFly 5y ago
I had to read this line in the article twice:
"Initially, the assumption was that the notebooks had been misplaced. Librarians conducted searches over the next two decades..."
Two decades :)
- DougMellon 5y agoI can’t imagine being the individual that believed they had misplaced them.
- schoen 5y agoI've met someone who, conversely, misplaced a million dollars' worth of original Borges short story manuscripts and thought they had been stolen. (Fortunately, they hadn't been!)
- yakak 5y agoIt's a good thing he found them, I would hate for our reality to be a footnote in a lost manuscript.
- lbriner 5y agoI thought the same but I guess if your library has 500,000 items, multiple storage locations and 1000s of people that can borrow things, not always with permission and not always recorded correctly, I can see how you wouldn't want to cry wolf until you had searched everywhere. Probably 20 years ago, they wouldn't have had all the security and CCTV that we have nowadays because it's so cheap.