Abe _M

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“The fruitless use of the phrase 'BE QUITE'.” by Abe _M

Submitted to Contest #91

What the librarian said was said many times before and will be said many times after. A phrase that has echoed throughout time. First said (most likely) by Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria who, by all accounts… (it was Wikipedia, ok) was the first ever librarian and operated in the first ever library which was located in Mesopotamia, Iraq. He would first use this phrase to silence a drunken priest who called the mere concept of a library as “stupid, poop. This is stupid and its poop.” And the last person to say the phrase would be named Captain...

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