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'''Libraries''' were latently magical places, as “keeping a lot of books in one place was dangerous in unstable reality conditions”. | '''Libraries''' were latently magical places, as “keeping a lot of books in one place was dangerous in unstable reality conditions”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') This could cause “'''L-Space''' phenomena”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[You've Been To Eden, I Perceive (short story)|You've Been To Eden, I Perceive]]'') | ||
In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]] this was particularly pronounced due to the unbalanced nature of reality; at particularly chaotic times it was possible to fall into the books and find oneself embroiled in an adventure based on their contents. Magical circles were maintained at the library [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] frequented, in an effort to downplay these effects. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]] this was particularly pronounced due to the unbalanced nature of reality; at particularly chaotic times it was possible to fall into the books and find oneself embroiled in an adventure based on their contents. Magical circles were maintained at the library [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] frequented, in an effort to downplay these effects. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') In [[Universe (You've Been To Eden, I Perceive)|one universe]], [[Aziraphale#The hot-cocoa incident|Aziraphale]] had likewise “warded” his bookshop against L-Space phenomena because they caused “all kinds of fuss”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[You've Been To Eden, I Perceive (short story)|You've Been To Eden, I Perceive]]'') | ||
The infinitely large [[Interdimensional Library]], sometimes known as simply “[[the Library]]”, allegedly contained every book ever written and was staffed with “[[Librarian]]s” who were fictional characters given life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[ | The infinitely large [[Interdimensional Library]], sometimes known as simply “[[the Library]]”, allegedly contained every book ever written and was staffed with “[[Librarian]]s” who were fictional characters given life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Libraries (and other such places where large amounts of books are kept) being a source of dimensional instability was a concept introduced by Terry Pratchett to his ''[[Discworld (series)|Discworld]]'' series under the name of [https://wiki.lspace.org/L-space L-Space]. Pratchett's writings specified that L-Space could theoretically be used to cross over from one universe to the next by getting lost in one bigger-on-the-inside library and exiting in another. | Libraries (and other such places where large amounts of books are kept) being a source of dimensional instability was a concept introduced by Terry Pratchett to his ''[[Discworld (series)|Discworld]]'' series under the name of [https://wiki.lspace.org/L-space L-Space]. Pratchett's writings specified that L-Space could theoretically be used to cross over from one universe to the next by getting lost in one bigger-on-the-inside library and exiting in another. | ||