Winter story for hot weather (for Threecee)

Threecee's library story (http://www.mfuarchive.net/archive/6/aquiet.html) reminded me of some of the fun that can be had in a library. This is a true story of a small episode, in December 2003, in the life of Cambridge University Library where I used to work. I wrote it originally in a letter to my parents.

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The library choir held its first carol concert in the entrance hall last Friday. I always go because it's so hilarious. It is very much a test of assertiveness for unsuspecting readers trying to enter via the heavy revolving door in as unobtrusive a fashion as possible. Very few have the chutzpah to walk straight in past the singers (and mad conductor) and either down into the cloakroom or up the stairs into the library.

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