This wall of the study is almost solid bookshelves, floor to ceiling. Most of the shelves are free-standing, but a few are built into the wall. Many of the shelves have white tags hanging from them. One of them says "Maqhmatikos" on it, but not all of the books above it are mathematical in nature . . . at least according to their titles.
A few shelves away, a small rock at one end of a shelf leaps out at the eye. The rock has many carved letters of different types on it, but none of the languages are English. To the right of the rock, in orderly progression, the book titles are Linear A, Linear B, Linear C, ANSI C, Objective C, Objective Seeing, and The Fair Witness' Guide to Court Stenography .
One of the shelves appears to be entirely dictionaries: A big Random House dictionary, a Collins-Robert French-English dictionary, a Larousse dictionnaire français-français, a Latin-English dictionary, another Collins dictionary, this time English-German, and another book, with a black spine with orange ends, and the word "Symbols" in large white letters. This last book props up a printout defining different types of musical notation, with "Learn this by tomorrow, Piemur" written tidily across the top of the top page.
Near there, another shelf (almost empty and without a tag) has an ancient-looking tome on it. Handwritten down the spine, in a flowing ugly script, are the words "The Book of Moons." The book is locked closed, and no key is in evidence. A note resting on the leathery front says "Return to Tom before the tourney." The note is held down by a small polished green stone.
The shelf below that has a white tag marking it as "Reference." Unlike the other white tags, the "Reference" tag sticks up from the bottom of the shelf, instead of hanging over the edge. This appears to be done to keep it out of the way of the painting directly below.
(Last remodeled 3/20/02002)