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Läser just nu Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Wintersons självbiografi. En intressant, fascinerande och givande bok på många sätt. Återkommer säkert till den.
Men just nu ville jag återge ett stycke som liksom förklarar allt om bibliotek, psykologi, klassifikation, sortering. Och möjligen även om bibliotekarier.
"The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior – benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.
'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.'
'Then what happens?,' asked the junior, rather overawed.
'Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course – as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness.'
The junior went silent. I said. 'Who is Jung?'
'That is not for now,' said the librarian. 'And in any case not English literature A-Z. You would have to go to Psychoanalysis – over there, by Psychology and Religion.' "
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PS. Dewey-koden för Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? är 823.92 där 823 står för "English literature" och 92 för "Biography, genealogy, insignia".
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