The Keble library can be a bit eerily quiet during the holidays. Open twenty-four hours and awful quiet once the students take off, it has large cubicles in old wood, lots of books, dim lighting, and a certain creakiness (as well as vaulted ceilings and red brickwork). Recently I saw a trailer for The Strangers, and can't stop my overly active imagination from firing away while I am suppose to be reading Chaucer in the library.I sit right by the main entrance, and can hear the door slamming shut as people come in. There is only one entrance to the library (i.e. one exit). What if I were to see the masked man walk intently in, holding onto a cleaver?
Luckily so far all that I have seen are other harrased looking students.
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I've always felt that libraries are a little creepy, but in a sort of safe way. All that information in one place, for a start, makes a library a dangerous place, right? But, as the saying goes, sticks and stones can break my bones but words could never harm me. Libraries - safe as houses!
I think the Keble College library is particularly bad because it's very Victorian :) High vaulted ceilings, and small wooden cubicles which seat about 6 readers on either side of the main entry way. Quite poorly lit when all the desk lamps aren't on - and definitely creaks!
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