There
was a library in my heart. She came and told, she had done diploma in Library
science. She was beautiful like a princess. The door of my old library always
remained ajar. She entered and started sorting some of the racks. It was good
to keep someone on a trial period. It was an age old library, disarranged and
full of spider webs. She started cleaning the dusts, listing the racks, cataloging
the books. She was seemingly restless and energetic; as I could guess, she was
in search of some particular book... may be a book that lost its cover page
long ago. A book that might have no page numbers or index pages. Whatever, I
was not sure about. I was happy since the library only used to collecting books
without any systematic method or discipline. I never could ever throw out the
old or unimportant books. I was very bad at taxonomy - what was less important
for me, since everything carried its own smell and presence. As my library was unattended
by me for long it was full of chaos. Within the chaos one day she got lost. One
day I knocked her, got no response. The door was stuck. What happened? She was
supposed to clean it up! I opened the door somehow and saw, all were turned
into soil. I realized, it was too late, she was a princess of the termites.
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