Case Study No. 1202: Prue Theroux the Cool Librarian

"Prue Theroux the cool librarian" book trailer
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By Gillian Rubinstein
Illustrated by David Mackintosh

Publisher: Random House Australia (2002)
ISBN-10: 0091838878
ISBN-13: 978-0091838874
ASIN: B004J2FRDK
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When you don't know what to do ...
When you haven't got a clue ...
Go and talk to Miss Theroux!
Who, who, who ...?
Miss Prue ... That's who!

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From goodreads.com:

When Prue Theroux comes down with the flu and substitute teacher Mr Boycott takes all the fun out of reading, the students of Numbat Gully Primary School beg her to come back at once. A fun book about a very fun school librarian. I loved how Gillian Rubinstein managed to incorporate about 30 actual book titles into the story, most of them by Australian Children's authors (and a couple by Ms Rubinstein herself!). Makes you want to go out and find them all at the local library. Children's books that encourage a love of reading are always good in my book.

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From blogspot.com:

...Who can jump like a kangaroo?
Who can squawk like a cockatoo?...
Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue that's who,
Miss Prue Theroux, the school librarian.

It may all sound trivial, absurd and at the same time, mundane, but upon reading the whole book, I think I got the message that it wanted to convey: That Librarians, although they do not possess super powers, are extra cool because they tend to know almost everything [well, at least, their collection] and know the appropriate users of these knowledge. And that's Miss Prue, your cool school librarian.

The only drawback, I think, is how the book depicted Miss Prue. In spite the know-it-all attitude as evidently seen in this line:

When you don't know what to do,
When you haven't got a clue,
Go and talk to Miss Theroux.

Sadly, Miss Prue still remained as an old-fashioned librarian. She's still an old maiden [I assume] wearing glasses covered in a bunch of overcoats. I guess it would have been more cool if she was wearing a more modern attire like a corporate-looking attire or she could have been depicted as a hot chick or a hot dude [which I would have preferred more].

Yet all in all, I'd say that the book is a good read because it shows what we, librarians do. Although it deals mostly on the "Reference" aspect of a librarian's job, it somehow highlights our role in schools, especially as advocates for the love of reading. After all, it is what we do that defines us. Right?

**Prue Theroux: the cool librarian is written by Gillian Rubinstein and illustrated by David Mackintosh

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From capitale.org.nz:

When you don't know what to do,
When you haven't got a clue,
Go and talk to Miss Theroux.

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian.

Who can teach you the alphabet (abcdefg)
And all about the Internet? (prue[at]senet.com.au)
How to make a chocolate cake (I love chocolate cake)
And how to play the clarinet?

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian.

Who knows the names of the football teams? (kick it from 50 ya mug)
Who knows the meanings of your dreams?
Who can jump like a kangaroo? (I can)
Who can squawk like a cockatoo? (squawk!)
And who, in the annual fancy dress
Came as a warrior princess?
war cry - yilliliilliilliilliii...)

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian.

She lets us cut up magazines; (snippety snip)
She even gives us jelly beans.
At Hallowe'en she paints us green!

Playing, singing, writing, drawing,
With Miss Theroux; They're never boring.

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian.

At Numbat Gully Primary School,
What's the thing that's really cool?

Is it sports?
No!

Is it maths?
No!

Is it fights?
No!

It's books!
Yes!

Wherever you look,
In every nook,
There's a nose in every book.

On the oval,
Yo!

In the hall,
Yo!

Big and small,
Yo!

One and all.
Yo!

In the staffroom,
On the loo,
Reading books from
You know who!
Reading books from
Youknow,youknow,youknow who...

It's me!

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian.

Arrrchooo! Oh dear!

One day Miss Prue
Looks rather blue.

Achoo! Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!
Oh poo, I've got the flu!

Eyes all red,
Aching head,
Feet like lead
Week in bed.

(Ian enters as Mr Boycott to the robotic sounds of Mel)

Fold your arms, zip your lips, sit up straight, don't be late

Mr Boycott comes instead.
Mr Boycott comes instead.
Mr Boycott comes instead.
Mr Boycott comes instead.

He looks as if he's made of metal,
His head's shaped rather like a kettle.
He doesn't like the least disorder!
When the littlies play recorder!!
Mr Boycott has a grand fit!!!,
Sends them out into the sandpit!!!!

Mr Boycott's really mean.
He's never heard of Hallowe'en,

He doesn't cut up magazines.
Doesn't hand out jellybeans,

Doesn't havea Best Books List,
Doesn't reads us Round the Twist.

Doesn't picks up our favourite choices,
Doesn't read in funny voices.

Mr Boycott calls us fools!
And he has a list of rules

No talking!
Books on shelves!!
Work by yourselves!!!
Stop that roaring!!!!

He makes even books seems boring.

Mr Boycott's acting weird.
All the books have disappeared.
When we want to borrow some,
Mr B emits a hum

It sounds just like...

exter... min... ate

When Barry brings a book back late,
And Jane and Wayne Maclean complain,
Mr Boycott goes insane!

His teeth go click, his fingers flick.
His eyes stick out like lollipops
And then he stops!
He stands quite still.
Oh oh! Another teacher's ill.

He doesn't squeak,
He doesn't speak,
He doesn't move for half a week,
As if struck by a thunderbolt
The school grinds slowly to a halt.

Hello?

Miss Prue? It's Libby here from school - we're in a spot of bother.
Could you come back please... we need you.

SFX –Car

Hello dears?

The very next day at half-past two,
She turns up in her blue Subaru.

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux (Hello darlings)
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who? (What's happened?)
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian. (Oh deary me)

'Whatato-do,'
says Prue Theroux.
'Whatato-do,'

She goes inside to Mr Boycott,
Whose head looks like a bloodshot teapot,
Removes his hair with great aplomb,
And puts in another CD ROM.

A CD ROM!!!!

We all stand in total shock.
Then the whole school runs amok.
There's a terrible hullabaloo.
The littlies crying 'Boohoohoo!'

Mr Boycott's a robot!

What?

Mr Boycott's a robot!
Mr Boycott's a robot!
Mr Boycott's a robot!

A fusspot, tinpot, stinkpot robot!

That will do
My goodness.
That will do-oo!!

Mr Boycott caught a bug,
Let's give him a great big hug!
He's not really bad, poor lamb.
He just needed a new program.

Now his circuits are complete,
Mr Boycott's prettyneat.
We call him Hal,
He's quite a pal,
He's really very helpful too.
But not as neat as you know who-oo-who!

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
And one more time let's go!

Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
That's
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Miss Prue Theroux
Who? Who? Who? Who?
The school librarian
The school librarian
The coo-ool librarian.

Case Study No. 1201: Jaime Kurz and Angela Creamer

Atty: Librarian fired for reporting sex
2:04
A former Estancia assistant librarian claims she was fired for reporting two town workers having sex in the children's section.
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[scene opens with a female news anchor speaking directly to the camera, as "Library Sex Scandal" appears on screen]
JESSICA GARATE: An assistant librarian claims she was fired from her job after she told on her boss, the librarian, for having sex in the children's section. News Thirteen's Alex Goldsmith has the story.
[cut to an exterior shot of Estancia's Williams Memorial Library building]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] Friday afternoon, all's quiet at Estancia Public Library.
[cut to a still photograph of the young female librarian (curly brown hair, blue checkered shirt)]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] In August, assistant librarian Jaime Kurz came into work expecting a quiet start to her day, too.
[cut to a man ("Joseph CampBell, Kurz's Attorney") speaking directly to the camera]
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Went into work a few minutes early. Um, saw that there was two vehicles out in front of the library, one being the car for the other librarian and one being a town maintenance vehicle.
[cut to another exterior shot of the library]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] And didn't think much of it ... until she went inside and heard some strange noises.
[cut back to the lawyer speaking directly to the camera]
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Turned around and saw, um, the two other town employees engaged in sexual intercourse on the floor in the children's section.
[cut to a still photograph of the (empty) children's section of the library]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] Kurz claims the two culprits were the head librarian and a town maintenance worker.
[cut back to the lawyer speaking directly to the camera]
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: She was told by the maintenance man not to say anything, of course. Everybody ... the two of them were both married, so that would be an issue.
[cut to a still image of the town's website, featuring an image of mayor Sylvia Chavez]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] However, Kurz did say something to the town's library director, and the mayor.
[cut back to the lawyer speaking directly to the camera]
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: The mayor subsequently talked to Jaime about it ... told her that, y'know, it wouldn't have any effect on her job.
[cut to another exterior shot of the library]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] Kurz says neither of the two workers caught in the act lost their jobs ... Instead, she and the library director did.
[cut to a still photograph of a letter]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] A letter from the mayor early last month claims Kurz was being let go for insubordination.
[cut to the reporter standing outside of the library, speaking directly to the camera]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: But Kurz claims it was what she saw here that cost her her job, and now she's looking at legal action.
[cut back to the lawyer speaking directly to the camera]
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I believe she was fired because she, she brought this issue to light.
[cut to another exterior shot of the library]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] And because the librarian and maintenance man know the mayor.
[cut to a shot of the lawyer speaking to the lawyer]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] Kurz's attorney says he could file a whistle-blower lawsuit against the town soon.
[cut to an exterior shot of the Community Center Town Hall building]
ALEX GOLDSMITH: [in voice over] As for the mayor, we tried to reach her at town hall for comment, but were told she wasn't in today. In Estancia, Alex Goldsmith, KRQE News Thirteen.
[cut back to the news anchor in studio]
JESSICA GARATE: To back up his client's claims, Kurz's attorney played a secret audio recording for News Thirteen. In it, the librarian does not admit to Kurz that she was having sex in the kid's section, but does tell Kurz if she can't handle the situation, she should find another job.

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From krqe.com:

ESTANCIA, NM (KRQE) - It was a morning in August, and Estancia assistant librarian Jaime Kurz was coming into work expecting a quiet start to her day.

"[She] went into work a few minutes early, saw that there was two vehicles out in front of the library," said Joseph CampBell, Kurz's attorney. "One being the other librarian and one being a town maintenance vehicle."

CampBell says Kurz didn't think much of it until she went inside, set her belongings on her desk and heard some strange noises.

"[She] turned around and saw two other employees engaged in sexual intercourse on the floor in the children's section," CampBell said.

Kurz claims it was the town's head librarian and a maintenance worker, who told her to keep quiet. Kurz didn't, and CampBell says she reported the incident to the city library director and ultimately Estancia Mayor Sylvia Chavez herself.

"The mayor subsequently talked to Jaime about it, told her that it wouldn't have any effect on her job," CampBell said.

But after Kurz took leave when the main librarian returned to work claiming a hostile work environment, she was soon let go. The library director was fired, too.

In an October 10 termination letter from Mayor Chavez to Kurz, Chavez claims Kurz refused to turn over the key to the library while on leave.

"Your refusal to turn over Town property upon request and as required to ensure uninterrupted library services shows a lack of cooperation and willingness to work with supervisors," wrote Chavez in the letter. "This behavior constitutes insubordination and jeopardizes the Town's ability to serve its citizens."

CampBell sees it differently, claiming Kurz was let go to try and sweep the incident under the rug and protect two employees who were locals and "close" to the mayor. He says he intends to file a tort claim with the town, which could lead to a whistleblower lawsuit.

CampBell allowed KRQE News 13 to listen to a covert audio recording between Kurz and the main librarian to corroborate Kurz's claims. Although that librarian does not directly admit to having sex in the children's section, she does tell Kurz that if she can't handle the situation, she should find another job.

KRQE News 13 attempted to reach Chavez at Town Hall Friday afternoon. A receptionist there said she was out for the day.

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From townofestancia.com:

Estancia Public library
Head Librarian: Angela Creamer
Asst. Librarian: Jaime Kurz

The Estancia Public Library is a place for the entire family to enjoy! The library has many adult and children audio and book titles to choose from. The Library offers fax, and copy service also. Take a moment to enjoy your library. We have many seating areas to enjoy the newspaper or a magazine. Young adults can hang out in our teen area and children will enjoy the building blocks, games and puzzles in the children's area. The Library has a Southwest room with a large collection of southwest titles.

The Library has space available to use for your next meeting. Call the Library for more details.

NEWS

* 07 July 2011 - Angela Creamer has been selected as the new Head Librarian at the Estancia Public Library effective July 1.

Creamer earned the promotion from her current job as the Town of Estancia Billing Clerk/Receptionist after an in-depth application and interview process. There were 12 original applicants for the job.

Creamer served as librarian and assistant librarian from 2001-2008 and holds Grade I and Grade II New Mexico State Librarian Certifications.

As part of her plans for the facility, Creamer hopes to build a strong force of volunteers.

"Please come volunteer at the library and share your time and talents," she said. "There is a job waiting for you."

Some of the possibilities include mending, covering and shelving books, helping students and seniors on the computer, reading to preschoolers, helping someone find that special book, teaching a craft to preteens and just like home, there is always cleaning that needs done.

Case Study No. 1200: Tosaka Hiyoko (student library worker)

Let's Play: Hatoful Boyfriend (Nageki) Part 1
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We go after depressed loner pigeon!
Can't wait to see what happens here! :)
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["April 11th" appears on screen, as the scene opens with Kazuaki Nanaki (a male buttonquail) addressing a classroom full of students at St. PigeoNation's Institute]
KAZUAKI: As you all know, this school doesn't require you to join any club. If you want to, you can, but if you don't then you're free to go home after school.
[cut to a fantail pigeon in the classroom]
OKOSAN: Coo! Okosan has time only for the track team!
[cut back to the teacher]
KAZUAKI: That's good. What about you, Shirogane?
[cut to another fantail pigeon in the classroom]
SAKUYA: A foolish question. I already hold a position here.
[cut back to the teacher]
KAZUAKI: Oh, that's right. You became student president when you were admitted ... Nepotism, ho! Don't we get a vote!?
[cut to a rock dove in the classroom]
RYOUTA: Just coming to school is enough for me. You have to take care of your mother on your own, and all ... Hmm, I wonder what I should do.
["Join the ... " appears on screen, and the player selects "Library"]
KAZUAKI: That's everyone, isn't it? Have fun!
[the scene fades to black, then "April 12th" appears on screen]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today's an elective day! What should I do?
["Attend ... " appears on screen, and the player selects "Math class"]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Mister Nanaki dozed off as usual, but class was somehow good anyway. I feel smarter already!
["Hiyoko leveled up! Wisdom increased by 5!" appears on screen]
[the scene fades to black, then "April 15th" appears on screen]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I'm on receptionist duty today. Better hurry!
[cut to the school's library, which features a lot of empty tables]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Boring, as usual. The library here doesn't seem very popular ... Not enough books? It's on the fifth floor, though, so at least the view is nice. Sitting here twiddling my thumbs is bad for me. I wish someone would come ask me something.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] There's nobirdie here. I wonder if it would be okay to close early ... ? Aaah, I wish I could just spread my wings and fly away!
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Planning to jump off the building? The window there is rather good for that, Miss Receptionist.
[a white male mourning dove suddenly appears]
HIYOKO: Nageki?! When did you--
NAGEKI: I've been here all along.
HIYOKO: [to herself] I never noticed ... He's almost as bad as the doctor.
NAGEKI: You're thinking I have no presence, right? It's okay. I already know that.
HIYOKO: You certainly seem to like this place.
NAGEKI: Yes. Is that a problem?
HIYOKO: Umm ...
[the player selects "No, books are nice"]
NAGEKI: [pause] They are.
HIYOKO: Why don't you join the library staff, Nageki? You could read whatever you want.
NAGEKI: I already read whatever I want.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Touche.
NAGEKI: You shouldn't slack off, Miss Receptionist.
[he disappears]
HIYOKO: [to herself] And with that, he takes a book and is gone between the stacks. What a strange bird ...

[...]

["May 21st" appears on screen, as the player leaves the school's sports festival and enters the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] May is practically summer already ... It's too hot! I think I'll rest in the library. Aah, much better!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] It's nice that the AC is on, but do we really need it? Nobirdie's in here today.
NAGEKI: [from off camera] It's not on.
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: It's you, Nageki!
NAGEKI: It's you, Miss Tosaka.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Woah! He called me by my name.
NAGEKI: They don't turn the air conditioning on until June. It just feels cold compared to outside.
HIYOKO: Oh, is that it?
[he says nothing]
HIYOKO: [to herself] It would be a little strange to start spending money to cool a barely-used library in May.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Anyway, aren't you going to participate in the festival, Nageki?
NAGEKI: Aren't you?
HIYOKO: Eep!
NAGEKI: I don't like it outside. So I stay in here. That's all.
HIYOKO: Hmm ... I see.
NAGEKI: [pause] Why are you sitting next to me?
HIYOKO: Do you mind?
NAGEKI: [pause] Not really.
HIYOKO: U-um, listen, our class president got duped into being a cheerleader, and ...
[he says nothing]
HIYOKO: S-sorry ...
NAGEKI: [pause] No. Keep going.
HIYOKO: [to herself] And so I spent the day telling him about the festival and whatnot while he read. I don't know how much he was listening to me, but he didn't seem to mind ... I think?

[...]

["Jul 20th" appears on screen, as the player starts off in the classroom]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today's the last day! It's been a semester already ... Sometimes it seemed long, and sometimes it seemed short, but either way, it's summer now! I need to check all the assigned books before I go home. There will be a lot of students coming in to borrow their summer reading pretty soon!
[cut to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today is the closing ceremony, so there are even fewer birds in here than usual. Am I the only one? Well, that just makes my job easier ... but I'm probably not alone. I've seen this situation before.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Nageki?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] No reply. Maybe he's not here.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Are you here, Nage--
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: Please be quiet in the library.
HIYOKO: Hello!
NAGEKI: You're rather noisy today. Did you want something?
HIYOKO: Nope! I was just wondering if you were here.
NAGEKI: Of course. I'm always here.
HIYOKO: [to herself] He replies from his corner, in a somewhat annoyed tone of voice. Oh! The book he's holding ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: That's assigned reading this semester! Is it any good?
NAGEKI: [pause] Not really. I'm almost done with it ... It forces its "safe" ethical viewpoint on the reader. Like all assigned reading. The whole concept is inane. Why force everyone to read the same books?
HIYOKO: It is pretty boring most of the time.
NAGEKI: What do you like to read?
HIYOKO: Huh?
NAGEKI: You volunteered to work here. So you must like books. I was wondering what to read next.
HIYOKO: So you want me to recommend something?
["He nods" appears on screen]
HIYOKO: What about ...
[the player selects "OreHato"]
HIYOKO: What about "My Little Nicobar Can't Be This Cute?" I liked it.
NAGEKI: I've never heard that name before. What is it?
HIYOKO: It's a light novel that came out last month. It's about an incredibly tsundere Nicobar with a complex, and her faceless male protagonist brother, and--
NAGEKI: I see.
HIYOKO: [to herself] He sounds extremely uninterested ... Don't look down on light novels! Kirinico is cute!
["Jul 24th" appears on screen, then cut to Hiyoko's home (a cave on the edge of town)]
HIYOKO: [to herself] It's still a long time until the semester starts ... and I still have a lot of homework! Maybe I should apply for a part-time job, since I have the chance?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I'll ...
[the player selects "Forget it"]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Hmm ... I think I'll wait until I'm in college. That way I can skip lectures to go to work. Slacking off and having fun is more the highschooler thing to do. Wheeee!
["Aug 6th" appears on screen, then cut to Hiyoko's cave during nighttime]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today's the local summer festival! I think I'll go with somebirdie.
[the player selects "Invite ... Nageki"]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I'll invite Nageki. He needs to get out more!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] But I don't know his address or phone number. I'd go look in the library if the school weren't already closed. Now that I think about it, I only know him as "the depressed freshman who's always in the library". I'd like to learn more about him ... though, he'd probably never tell me anything if I asked. Aah, going out is too much trouble. I think I'll have some udon and go to bed!
["Aug 14th" appears on screen, then cut back to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today is my day as receptionist. There's nobirdie here, as usual. Maybe I should work on the newspaper ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Nageki?
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: Yes?
HIYOKO: Do you have a minute?
NAGEKI: What is it?
HIYOKO: Want to write a book review? I'm working on the library newspaper, and there's a corner open, so I thought--
NAGEKI: Can't you write one yourself?
HIYOKO: I'm always writing them! We never get submissions, so the book reviews are just turning into our personal soapbox!
NAGEKI: Perhaps it would be better to remove them from the paper.
HIYOKO: [to herself] My thoughts exactly.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: I'd like to see how you'd write one, though. It doesn't have to be very long, either!
NAGEKI: [pause] I'll write one later. Leave the paper there.
HIYOKO: Yaaay! Thank you!
[Nageki disappears]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I think that's everything for the September issue. Wheee!
["Aug 30th" appears on screen, then cut back to Hiyoko's cave]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Aaah! I knew I should've gotten up when I first woke up! I slept too late! School starts today, right? I'm gonna be late!
[cut to a hallway in the school, as Hiyoko's teacher appears]
KAZUAKI: Oh, hello, Tosaka!
HIYOKO: Sir! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I overslept!
KAZUAKI: Overslept ... ?
HIYOKO: Aaah! My homework! I forgot to bring my homework!
KAZUAKI: Aren't you a getting a little bit ahead of yourself, Tosaka?
HIYOKO: Huh?
KAZUAKI: What's the number in the top left-hand corner say?
HIYOKO: Oooh ...
KAZUAKI: You're just a little bit early.
HIYOKO: Waaah ...
KAZUAKI: Though, since you're here ... Could you lend me a hand for a bit, Tosaka?
HIYOKO: Lend you a hand?
KAZUAKI: I was about to start grading the freshmen's exams, and I thought maybe you could help, if you don't have something else. Of course, you have a test in September, so if you want to go and study in the library ...
HIYOKO: I want to ...
[the player selects "Study in the library"]
HIYOKO: [to herself] The library should be open now. I think I'll go study ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Umm ... I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not sure I've prepared enough for my tests. I'd like to go study, if that's all right.
KAZUAKI: Of course! Work hard, okay?
[cut to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] There are already a number of students working in the library. Looks like mostly third-years? They've probably all decided on their colleges and careers already ... Will I be that frantic this time next year, I wonder?
["!" appears on screen]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Nageki is here, too, leaning against a bookshelf in a far corner.
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: Nageki!
NAGEKI: [pause] Miss Tosaka? Did you need something?
HIYOKO: Why are you over here? There are still plenty of seats open ... You should sit down!
NAGEKI: I don't mind standing.
HIYOKO: [to herself] You look like you mind!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: You don't ... like being near other birds? Is that it?
["He nods" appears on screen]
NAGEKI: [pause] They'll just ... They'll just ignore me, anyway. Whether or not I go near.
HIYOKO: Nageki, are you being ...
[the player selects "Bullied?"]
NAGEKI: ...
HIYOKO: [to herself] He falls silent. If there's something wrong, I'd like to help ...

[...]

["Sep 25th" appears on screen, as the player starts off in the classroom]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Today's the school festival! Our class decided to do a maid cafe. I'm not scheduled to work until tomorrow, so ... I have today off! I don't have anything to do, so I guess I'll go look around.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Hmm, I wonder if Nageki's in the library today? Probably. I think I'll go buy something and hang out with him.
[cut to the library]
HIYOKO: Yup, door's open! Nageki?
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: Close it, please.
HIYOKO: I knew you'd be here!
NAGEKI: The door. It's loud outside.
[the sound of a door closing can be heard]
HIYOKO: Oh! Sorry ... You're staying in here even today? It's almost like this is where you live!
NAGEKI: [pause] Is there something wrong with that?
HIYOKO: Of course not! You're kind of like a friendly ghost, or something. It's reassuring to know you're here ... Anyway, I brought you something! You're planning to stay here all day, right?
NAGEKI: What did ... Cookies?
HIYOKO: Yup! The birdwatching club was selling bird-shaped cookies. Aren't they cute? Have some!
NAGEKI: Hmm ... Thanks.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Hearing him thank me makes me very happy, even if it was in a whisper. He even looks a little happier than usual!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: There's lots of other stuff, too! The third-years are doing a play, and one class put together a god-tier haunted house ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: I was thinking of looking around a little more ... Nageki, want to come with me?
NAGEKI: No.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Oh no! He looks angry ...
NAGEKI: I ... No, thank you. Go ahead, if you want.
HIYOKO: Well ... all right. Sorry, I didn't mean to try to drag you out of here.
[Nageki disappears]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I think he might actually live in here ... Now that I think about it, I've never seen him anywhere else. Maybe he comes straight here as soon as he gets to school?
["Oct 7th" appears on screen, then cut to a hallway in the school]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Midterms are right around the corner! Aaagh, I got too excited for the festival and didn't study at all. I'll have to study at ... Huh? Where's my history textbook? It's not on my desk.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Oh! I was reading it in the library during lunch, so maybe it's still there. I'll go look.
[her teacher enters the scene]
HIYOKO: Sir!
KAZUAKI: Welcome back, Tosaka. Where are you going?
HIYOKO: I think I left something in the library! Do you know if the door's still open?
KAZUAKI: Umm ... somebirdie brought the key to the staff room a few minutes ago, so I think it's locked now.
HIYOKO: I'll go there first, then! Thank you, sir!
[cut back to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I was sitting ... over there?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Here it is! Yaaay!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Oh!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Somebirdie's written on the page I left open. "The congress dances, but does not progress" ... Well, that's funny, but don't write on people's books!
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Don't leave books lying around with their pages to the four winds.
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: Nageki!?
NAGEKI: What? Why are you so surprised?
HIYOKO: I hadn't thought you'd still be here ...
NAGEKI: Why not?
HIYOKO: The door was locked! Don't tell me they locked you in!?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] That would be terrible!
NAGEKI: [pause] It was? I hadn't realized.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Well, if it was an accident then it's all right ... maybe? Geez, you're supposed to make sure there's nobirdie left inside before you lock the door! Anyway, I need to lock the door again.
[the player selects "I should ... go home with Nageki"]
HIYOKO: Hey, Nageki ... Let's go home together.
NAGEKI: No, thank you.
HIYOKO: [to herself] H-he didn't even pause to think about it!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Where do you live? I'll walk you.
NAGEKI: I'm fine, really. Don't worry about me.
HIYOKO: You always get mad when I suggest you go outside ...
NAGEKI: [pause] Don't jump to ... If I could, I'd--
HIYOKO: What ... ?
NAGEKI: Don't worry about it. I'll lock the door, so just leave the key there.
HIYOKO: [to herself] He's already reading again. I think I'm annoying him ...
["Nov 10th" appears on screen, then cut to another shot of the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Aaah! My grades aren't looking very good. I need to work harder to recover before finals ... And so I sat studying in the library, while one by one the other students filed out to go home. When I look up, I'm alone.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Or not.
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: My, how unusual! I think this is the first time you've sat down next to me, Nageki.
NAGEKI: [pause] I ... want to talk to you.
HIYOKO: You're nothing but surprises today!
NAGEKI: I'll leave you alone if you're busy.
HIYOKO: Nooo! Talk away!
NAGEKI: I was ... shocked when you first came and talked to me, Miss Tosaka. You're the only one who didn't ignore me. No one but you has ever talked to me. That's why ... this is the only place for me.
HIYOKO: [to herself] That's ... That's terrible!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Nageki, that's awful! Which class are you in? I'll talk to your teacher--
NAGEKI: I'm not done talking yet.
HIYOKO: Sorry, go on ...
NAGEKI: You think I'm being bullied, right? I thought that, too.
HIYOKO: You're ... not?
NAGEKI: I don't think so, no. Being bullied ... might be better than this.
HIYOKO: [to herself] Better than this? Then what is he--
NAGEKI: I'm not sure yet, though. When you talk to me, I ... remember things, sometimes. But it's still not enough.
HIYOKO: I don't understand, what do you mean?
NAGEKI: Miss Tosaka, I think I ... I think I'm--
[Nageki disappears]
KAZUAKI: [from off camera] Tosaka? You're here late!
[her teacher enters the scene]
HIYOKO: Sir!
KAZUAKI: The school's already starting to close for the night. It's good to study, but working too hard on your own for too long can backfire on you. Lock the door and head home soon, okay?
[he leaves]
HIYOKO: [to herself] On my own ... ?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Sir, what are you talking about? I'm not al--
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Huh?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Nageki's gone. He was here just a moment ago! Where'd he go ... Did he leap out the window and go home ninja-style?

[...]

["Dec 24th" appears on screen, then cut to the library at night]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Closing time already! I don't really have any reason to be here again until the semester starts up ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Oh, no! It's snowing!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] It was clear when I left! Crossing the wilderness to get to my house in a blizzard ... I'd be risking my life.
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: [pause] You're still here?
HIYOKO: Nageki!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] A book under his arm, the same as always. I do wonder about last time ... But, if he wants to talk, then he'll talk to me. For now, I won't bring it up.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: I was about to go home, but--
NAGEKI: Snow?
HIYOKO: Mmhmm. I guess I'll have to wait until it stops.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] He makes a noise of agreement, and sits down next to me with his book. He's been a little distant lately, but maybe he's warming up to me in his own way ... ?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: What are you reading?
NAGEKI: Dickens. "A Christmas Carol."
HIYOKO: Oh! It's Christmas Eve today, isn't it?
NAGEKI: Please keep quiet in the library.
HIYOKO: Sorry ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I completely forgot! I guess this makes it a white Christmas ... More like a whiteout Christmas, if you ask me!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Looks like you're almost finished?
NAGEKI: Yup. I just got to the part where Tiny Tim dies and Scrooge sees his own grave.
HIYOKO: That sounds like a ... depressing story.
NAGEKI: [pause] You haven't read it? Even though you work here?
HIYOKO: I'm Buddhist, so Christmas stuff has never been--
NAGEKI: Tim is a boy born weak, who dies young. The protagonist, Scrooge, sees that that will happen, and tries to prevent it.
HIYOKO: Time travel? I thought it was a classic, but it sounds kind of science fiction-y ...
NAGEKI: I can see that. It's not really the focus of the book, though.
HIYOKO: I'd like to see the future ... It would be nice being able to avoid getting into trouble.
NAGEKI: [pause] I wouldn't like it.
HIYOKO: No?
NAGEKI: [pause] The future is what it is. It is what it is, and that's all there is to it.
[Nageki disappears]
HIYOKO: [to herself] And so we enjoyed the "present" point in time along which we flowed ... This is a nice way to spend Christmas, I think.

[...]

["Feb 3rd" appears on screen, then cut to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Almost empty, as always. And unsurprisingly! The heating doesn't work well here, so the winter cold will stick around well through February. The pervading chill has earned the library the dubious honor of being one of the school's least popular places in winter. The few students here are huddled around the heater. So, Nageki should be ...
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: There you are, Nageki!
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Sitting in a frigid corner far from the meagre effects of the heater, as expected.
NAGEKI: Please be--
HIYOKO: Quiet in the library.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Oh, can you somehow forgive my dreadful sin?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Brrr, it's cold here ... are you okay, Nageki?
NAGEKI: I am fine. Don't mind me, Miss Tosaka. Feel free to go sit by the heater if you're cold.
HIYOKO: Nope, I'm fine! My house doesn't have a heater at all. Anyway, I ... have something to give you. It's Legumentine's, you know.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Here! Foxtail Millet!
NAGEKI: [pause] For me?
HIYOKO: Yup! You're supposed to give beans to the most important bird in your life today ... Do you want them?
NAGEKI: [pause] Yes. Thank you.
HIYOKO: [to herself] He looks happier than usual. Or is it my imagination ... ?
NAGEKI: I often ate these, when I was younger ... This brings back memories. Thank you, Miss Tosaka.
HIYOKO: You're welcome, Nageki!

[...]

["Feb 7th" appears on screen, then cut to the classroom where the player is speaking with fellow student Ryouta Kawara (a male rock dove)]
RYOUTA: Hey, Hiyoko ... Are you okay?
HIYOKO: Huh? What do you mean?
RYOUTA: You look kinda sick ... your skin's all pale.
HIYOKO: I'm fine. Maybe it's your imagination?
RYOUTA: Hmm ... Well, okay. You're always healthy, after all.
HIYOKO: That's right. I'm the toughest guy in the town!
RYOUTA: You're not a guy, Hiyoko!
HIYOKO: Oh, I need to go to the library today. See you, Ryouta!
RYOUTA: See you!
[Ryouta exits the scene]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Last night was awfully cold ... but I don't feel sick or anything. Probably just Ryouta worrying about everything, as usual!
[cut to the library]
HIYOKO: Nageki?
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: [pause] What is it?
HIYOKO: Umm, I'm returning books that've wandered away from home to their loving families, and--
NAGEKI: Wandered away from home?
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: Ah. Misshelved books.
HIYOKO: Right! I'm almost done, but ... where do you think this one goes? I flipped through it, but I can't tell if it's fiction, or psychology, or science, or what!
NAGEKI: It should have a genre mark.
HIYOKO: Genre mark?
NAGEKI: Isn't there a label near the bottom of the back cover?
HIYOKO: Oh, yes, there is! But it's all numbers.
NAGEKI: [pause] You work here and you don't remember the classifications? How have you been filing them up until now?
HIYOKO: Woman's intuition!
NAGEKI: ...
HIYOKO: [to herself] He stares at me with eyes like scornful daggers ... Stop iiiiiiiit! You'll leave a hoooooole!
NAGEKI: Give it to me ... This is natural science. It starts with "four," so it's physics. The second number is a "five," so--
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: Are you listening?
HIYOKO: Yes ... Yes!
NAGEKI: The second number is a "five," so this is a book on seismology. So it should go--
[the screen suddenly turns black, and the sound of something hitting the ground can be heard]
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Miss ... Tosaka?
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: [from off camera] What's wrong, Miss Tosaka? Hey, say something ... !
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Somebirdie ... somebirdie!
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: [from off camera] How can I get someone else's attention ... !?
[the sound of glass breaking can be heard, then cut to the school infirmary]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Uuurgh ... I feel lousy. Where am I? I feel like I've--
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: The infirmary?
RYOUTA: [from off camera] Hiyoko!
[Ryouta enters the scene]
RYOUTA: You're awake! How do you feel? Are you all right? Do you remember who I am? Can I get you anything? Would you like me to peel you an apple?
HIYOKO: W-wait, Ryouta ... I can't answer all that at once!
RYOUTA: Oh, sorry.
HIYOKO: Why am I here, of all places?
SHUU: [from off camera] You wound me.
[Shuu Iwamine, the school's male physician (and a chukar partridge), enters the scene]
HIYOKO: Doctor!
SHUU: You collapsed, and Kawara brought you here. Any other questions?
HIYOKO: Collapsed ... ?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I do feel really heavy ... I was fine just a minute ago.
SHUU: A sudden fever, and inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. A cold, and nothing more ... though, the violent episode leaves me somewhat puzzled.
HIYOKO: The ... violent episode?
RYOUTA: You don't remember? You kicked down the library door.
HIYOKO: I remember no such thing!
RYOUTA: I heard the glass smashing as I was heading home, and when I went to look I found you collapsed in the doorway. There was no one else there, so I figured it was you who--
HIYOKO: I made that much of a mess while I was out cold ... ?
SHUU: Do you think you might have some deep-seated desire to indulge in violent acts?
HIYOKO: Don't make me sound like some sort of psychopath!
[she coughs weakly]
RYOUTA: You have to rest, Hiyoko! I'll sit with you ... Doctor, I think you're making her worse by hanging around like that, so please go back to whatever you were doing.
SHUU: My, I am unpopular. Is that any way to speak to a member of the faculty? But, very well.
[the scene fades to black]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Everything inside my head feels fuzzy. I'm causing trouble for Ryouta ... I'm probably going to have to pay for the library door, too.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] The library ... where'd Nageki go?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Natural sciences start with "four," and umm ... I wonder if he put it back on the right shelf?
["Feb 10th" appears on screen, then cut back to the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Lots of requested books are going to come in today. I'll have to work through lunch ... Aah, sorting all of these takes forever! I think I just have the encyclopedias to do before I'm done.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Huh?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] There's a note on the help desk counter. Umm ...
[she reads the note]
HIYOKO: "Miss Tosaka. Be here after the other students have all left. Fujishiro Nageki."
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] It reads like a challenge to a Samurai duel ... How fitting. I think this is the first time he's approached me? I wonder what it's all about.
[cut to another scene of the library]
HIYOKO: Nageki, are you here? Nageki?
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Ver ... ere ...
HIYOKO: Nageki!
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: [pause] Hello, Miss Tosaka.
HIYOKO: You startled me! How long have you been standing there?
NAGEKI: From the very beginning.
HIYOKO: So, what did you need?
NAGEKI: I want to ... talk with you, Miss Tosaka.
HIYOKO: Talk with me?
NAGEKI: Continue our conversation.
HIYOKO: [to herself] We were talking about ... bullying, I think?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Okay. I'm all ears, Nageki.
NAGEKI: I'm ... not sure where to start. I've noticed a lot, since we last spoke together.
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: Miss Tosaka.
HIYOKO: Hmm?
NAGEKI: Let's go outside.
HIYOKO: What!?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] But ... he hates going outside!
NAGEKI: Come on!
HIYOKO: [to herself] He stands up, and walks over to the door. I follow, agitated.
NAGEKI: You first.
HIYOKO: Okay ...
[cut to the hallway outside of the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] Why does he want to go out all of a sudden? I should be happy, but--
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Huh?
[Nageki enters the scene]
HIYOKO: What's wrong? You said you wanted to come out here ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] He stands in the doorway, pushing against open air.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: What are you doing ... mime?
NAGEKI: Watch.
HIYOKO: [to herself] He walks back a little ways into the library, and then ... Runs forward, crashing into the air.
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Nageki, what--
[the screen shakes and goes black, as "Thud!" appears on screen, then cut back to inside of the library]
HIYOKO: [to herself] He bounces off the invisible wall, and falls back into the library. That's ... too good to be a mime act.
[Nageki enters the scene]
NAGEKI: As I thought. I can't leave.
HIYOKO: What ... ?
NAGEKI: I ... can't leave this room. I wake up in this library. After a while, I lose consciousness and wake up here again. And so it repeats. I said I'd come to understand the truth by talking to you, Miss Tosaka. You've probably noticed, too. Why no one else talks to me.
HIYOKO: [to herself] That's because ...
[the player selects "They can't see you"]
HIYOKO: I'm ... the only one who can see you?
NAGEKI: [pause] Probably. I forgot why I was here. How I came to be stuck in this place ... I've been alone here for years, with no one to talk to.
HIYOKO: For years ... ?
NAGEKI: My sense of time ... has broken. I cannot feel or remember its passage.
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: I've seen at least ... five school festivals go by. But then, you came. And talked to me. I had had no partner but myself for so long, and suddenly--
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: You wouldn't leave me alone. As I talked to you, I finally remembered ... why I can't leave.
HIYOKO: ?
NAGEKI: I killed myself in this room. And so here I stay. My clock broke here, its hands turning meaninglessly, each day the same as the last. Alone ... forever.
[his image starts to fade away]
NAGEKI: No one is bullying me, or ignoring me. I'm not here to begin with. I have no regrets. It was my choice to end my life here, after all. But ... I think I will miss you, Miss Tosaka.
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: If I wasn't like this, I would ... I would have liked to talk to you more, for longer.
HIYOKO: Nageki ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] I wrap my arms around him. I can feel him, softly ... but he's cold.
NAGEKI: At first, sitting here alone was painful. But I grew numb, over time ... I ceased to feel pain. That feeling, that I thought I had lost, came back ... because of ... you ...
HIYOKO: I-I'll talk to you enough to make up for everyone else, Nageki! Maybe one day you'll be able to leave ...
NAGEKI: [pause] No.
HIYOKO: Why not?
NAGEKI: As I talked to you, I ... changed. I didn't notice until just recently.
[he continues to fade away even more]
NAGEKI: When you told me about this school, I was probably trying to take back the time I ... was never able to spend here. I never asked you to, but you relentlessly told me everything that was going on here. I already feel like I've spent a full year at this school.
[he pauses]
NAGEKI: And ... now it's over. I think the clock's hands ... are going to stop, soon.
HIYOKO: Nageki ... !?
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: [to herself] His head is right next to mine, but his voice sounds muffled and distant. When I look down, his feet are already disappearing ...
[she pauses]
HIYOKO: Nageki, wait! We've ... we've never talked like this before! I don't want this to be the last time!
NAGEKI: Don't cry, Miss Tosaka. I'm already long gone. There's no one here to mourn.
HIYOKO: But--
NAGEKI: There's just one thing I need to tell you before I go. The thing that I noticed. The secret that stopped my clock ...
HIYOKO: No! No, don't say it! Nageki, I--
NAGEKI: As I filled up, I grew closer to disappearing. You're the one who made me disappear, Miss Tosaka. I can't stop it now.
HIYOKO: But I still have so many things to tell you!
NAGEKI: You've already given me more than enough. I'm satisfied. The secret ...
[the screen goes white]
NAGEKI: [from off camera] Thank you. I love you.

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From wikipedia.org:

"Hatoful Boyfriend" (???????, Hatofuru Kareshi) is an otome visual novel/dating sim created by Hato Moa that features pigeons as characters rather than the more common human anime characters. The title of the game is a "pun on the words 'heartful' (also 'hurtful') in English and 'hato' (pigeon/dove) in Japanese." The player character is a human girl (default name: Hiyoko Tosaka) who is attending St. PigeoNation's Institute, and is the only human at the institute. As each of the pursuable male pigeons are introduced throughout the game, they are shown with an anime version of what they would look like as a human, though this is only shown for the first meeting. The game was originally released only in Japanese, but the developer later released an English patch after employing a translator, Nazerine.

Controls
The game plays the same as most other visual novels for the PC, with the controls limited to the mouse and the only interactions being clicking to forward the game's text or to choose between multiple plot choices (some small, and some that affect the game's ending). The keyboard can also be used, with 'enter' serving the same purpose as clicking.

The save button can be employed at any point during the game, which also features several pages of save slots, allowing gameplay to be easily picked up from prior to a choice the player made. An arrow button in the upper right corner also allows the player to speed through dialogue and interactions that they have already experienced.

Interactions
At various points during gameplay, the player is allowed to choose which classes to attend, which change the character's stats depending on the activity chosen. The player can also choose which places to visit, which determines what bird character's love path that the player will encounter.

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From wikia.com:

Tosaka Hiyoko is the main character of Hatoful. She's the only human in St Pigeonation, due to a special arrangement with the school that is explained in the Hurtful Boyfriend route. Though she's a hunter-gatherer who lives in a cave and hunts for red meat for her breakfast, her favourite food is udon.

Trivia
* Her name "Hiyoko" means "chick" in Japanese.
* She's often depicted by the fandom as a girl wearing a fake yellow chick head or a rock pigeon head in a futile effort to blend herself in the school full of birds, or as a normal girl with brown shoulder length hair. Moa, Hatoful's creator, has said that Hiyoko's image is up to the fans' imagination.
* She has a huge range of special attacks and some are powerful enough to break things.
* Her childhood pigeon friend Ryouta is in love with her, but she's too dense to figure it out.

Before St Pigeonations
Eight years before the game, both Hiyoko's parents were shot and killed in the Hatoful House incident when they tried to act as mediators between the human radicals and birds. Their deaths signaled the end of negotiations and started an all out fight between riot police and hostage takers in Hatoful House.

Hiyoko and Ryouta, while seeing Hiyoko's dead parents and witnessing the incident, were approached by Shuu. Shuu asks if they had any desire, any wish to be granted. Ryouta wished for world where humans and birds don't fight. Hiyoko then added the fatal line of "I would do anything to make Ryouta's wish come true."

Then and there, Shuu made his terrible promise to fulfill that wish someday, which led to the Hurtful Boyfriend route.

Hurtful Boyfriend
Hiyoko was killed in the start of the Hurtful Boyfriend route by the Charon Virus in Ryouta. The deadly virus that affects only humans was part of Shuu's plan to fuilfill Ryouta's wish - with the human race gone, the fighting will stop. Shuu then had Yuuya cut her up into pieces, and he removed her brain from her body and put it in Labor 9, a scarecrow-like being. Her last gasps to Ryouta before she died were eerily echoed by Labor 9 as, under the control of Shuu, it attempts to impede Ryouta and co from entering the sealed labs and keeps every other normal student away from the main building as Ryouta and Sakuya investigate.

Labor 9 is a prototype of the Labor Model New Humans that was first developed by Dove Party researchers, but condemned as unethical and the project shut down. It was made to assist birds, and with a human brain controlling an artificial body it was capable of tasks that bird limbs would find difficult to do. Shuu has continued with the Dove Party's research and created and used Labor 9 as his sidekick.

Even dead however, Hiyoko's spirit lives on. She appeared as a green floating flame to persuade Ryouta when he went into a brainwashed berserker state, and accompanies his spirit as he lay frozen in cryogenic slumber to wait for a cure for the Charon Virus.

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From wikia.com:

Fujishiro Nageki is a mourning dove in attendance at St. Pigeonation's. He is a very quiet freshman with a love of books; he can usually be found in the library.

He is voiced by Saiga Mitsuki in the drama CDs.

To pursue him, the player must join the library committee and pick options to see him.

For Legumentines, give him country millet.

Backstory
Nageki is from Hatoful House, an orphanage for birds. He was in there under the caring wing of Hitori (aka Nanaki-sensei) until humans attacked the orphanage and killed everybirdie. He is the sole survivor of the incident, other than Hitori who was away. It's because of the Charon Virus present in his weak body that was deadly to humans infected all of the attackers and killed them through asphyxiation. However at that time, neither he nor Hitori knew of that.

In the frantic search to save Nageki's ailing health made worse by the virus, Hitori looked far and wide for a doctor who can cure him. He caught the attention of Shuu, who was doing research for military use, and Shuu saw the opportunity. Nageki was then invited to St Pigeonations under the pretense of finding a cure, when what they were really doing to Nageki was investigating the potential power of the Charon Virus.

Nageki was exposed to humans in various experiments. He saw many die from the effects of the Charon Virus. Though humans were not his own race, it was terrible enough to watch them choke and gasp to death that he gradually grew depressed. As time goes by, the tone of his letters back home to Hitori changed.

Hitori, sensing something wrong, broke into the labs beneath St Pigeonations... just in time to see Nageki's suicide by fire.

Having died a unnatural emotional death in the labs, Nageki is now a ghost who haunts the library. The labs where he died were somewhere below the library, and Nageki is able to float vertically through the school, though he's unable to move horizontally out of the library area. He discovered this ability to move by accident, after sleeping and waking up in a different place. He's usually found in the library as there's nothing else for a trapped ghost to do but read. Also, Nageki had hidden a couple of files about the Charon project in the library when he was still alive.

The millet that Hiyoko buys him for Legumentine's reminds him of the times with Hitori, when they used to go pick millet in the yard for dinner together. Back then, Nageki felt guilty. Due to his poor health, he couldn't find a job or help do chores while the hardworking Hitori, only five years older, was doing all the work.

Only Hiyoko, Ryouta (and possibly Anghel) can see Nageki. A recent official manga chapter (specifically chapter 2) shows that Okosan can also see him. Sakuya and Nanaki, however, cannot see Nageki at all. According to Okosan, people can see Nageki because their hearts are pure.

Ending
We find out that Nageki is a ghost who cannot leave the library. Hiyoko's persistence has touched Nageki's heart, and slowly he felt fulfilled by all her descriptions of school life and also gradually fell in love with her. But now, having fallen in love and somewhat experienced normal school life, his heart feels fulfilled. He slowly vanishes during a heartfelt love confession in the saddest ending in this game.

Trivia
* His name Nageki is taken from the 'mourning' part of 'mourning dove'.
* His hatchday is 19 October 2167.

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From tvtropes.org:

Nageki Fujishiro
Drama CD VA: Mitsuki Saiga
Species: Mourning Dove
Birthday: October 19
Homeroom: ???
Activity: Library

This quiet dove spends all his time in the library.

He really doesn't like it when the other students make a ruckus in the library, shown especially in the radio play and manga. Although he isn't an actual librarian, he does spend the majority of his time there.

* Ryouta: "Nageki is a ghost, but he's not evil. ...I guess he can be scary if you make a mess of the library books, but..."

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From tumblr.com:

Hatoful Boyfriend guidebook: Nageki's short story

[The Last Leaf]

Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too.

... How absurd. I know it's unproductive to complain about characters that only appear in books, but I have nothing else to do. After all, yesterday, today, and the day after tomorrow, I live in a cycle of being surrounded by books.

For one thing, this patient is too self-conscious. Leaves will fall eventually- that's nature. Why would it be decided whether or not they fall based on the life of a single human? Does this girl think the universe revolves around her? What a bad case of megalomania.

In the past, it was said that a star would fall in the sky whenever a great person died. If you think about it, that's also pretty strange. Whether people live or die, the stars in the night sky will still fall. I don't know how vast space is, but it could be infinitely large, to the point that I most likely couldn't imagine it, only being aware of this small room as I am. A single life, on a single planet amongst the countless stars in space- it's conceited to think that the night sky would shed a tear for such a trivial thing. Just who do they think they are?

Whether we birds live or die, the seasons flow on. Winter will come again.

The grove of trees outside the library window are all dyed in autumn colours, too. This academy's library is cold. Even if I can't feel the change in temperature, the number of students visiting the library drops as the end of autumn approaches, so I can more or less tell when the season changes.

What day is it today, I wonder. I get the feeling that it's already been some time since the school festival, so I think it's the latter half of the second term, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

I watch as the leaves of the plane trees are blown away towards the sky by a gust of wind. It's an autumn sky, covered by thin, fleeting clouds. You can almost hear the approaching footsteps of winter. Birds everywhere will soon start to molt.

It's all part of the same indifferent, automatic cycle.

I was the same. Indifferent to everything, simply repeating the same things no matter what happened around me. As such, I didn't really mind. After all, I wouldn't have been bothered by it if I had been one of those leaves or stars, incapable of feeling emotion.

... There's something wrong today, though. Something that means I'm getting irritated at characters in books who don't even exist, and becoming irrationally angry with them.

I wonder why my thoughts are in such disarray. It's as if someone has thrown a rock into a body of water, which has known nothing but calm both afternoon and evening. The one holding the rock would be, of course, that busybody. They should be appearing soon as usual, come to think.

It isn't that I look forward to seeing them, but because of their meddling, it's become harder to be how I was before. I don't understand why, though. It's frustrating.

I wait for that person to come again today with the same vague sense of uneasiness.

Case Study No. 1199: Sean and Phil

Librarians
3:43
A chilling tale from San Francisco natives Philip Laird and Sean Lynch. Food for thought in troubled times...
Tags: librarians
Added: 4 years ago
From: ThisIsChannel101
Views: 500

[scene opens in the Non-Fiction section of a public library, as a young male librarian (red hair, red shirt, brown cargo shorts) is shelving books, when another young male librarian (curly hair, matching shirt and shorts) enters the scene and leans in incredibly close to his face]
SEAN: [whispers] Hey, what're you doing?
PHIL: [whispers] I'm shelving!
[he smiles, as Sean shakes in excitement]
PHIL: [whispers] I know!
SEAN: [whispers] You're shelving?!
PHIL: [whispers] Yeah!
SEAN: [whispers] Hey, later ... let's check out if there's any overdue books!
PHIL: [whispers] Okay! I was thinking first, I'd check all the dates on the books!
SEAN: [whispers] Okay!
PHIL: [whispers] Just to make sure they're dated right!
SEAN: [whispers] Okay! Keep, keep shelving!
PHIL: [whispers] Okay!
["Librarians" appears on screen, as various shots are shown of the two cavorting around the library with dead-eyed grins on their faces (as if this were the opening credits to an 80s sitcom)]
[cut to the two slowly turning towards the camera, each holding a finger to their lips, as they shush the audience]
[cut to the two standing in the "Biography" section (inappropriately touching each other's cargo shorts), then cut to a male patron sitting cross-legged on the floor reading a book with Hitler on the cover (while laughing hysterically)]
[cut back to the two librarians (who look at each other at the sound of the loud laughter), then Sean makes a move to leave but Phil holds him back]
PHIL: [whispers] I got this one ...
SEAN: [whispers] Okay!
PHIL: [whispers] Okay!
SEAN: [whispers] I'll watch!
[Phil moves off camera, then cut to the patron as Phil walks up to him and leans down right in his face (with a very serious expression)]
PHIL: [whispers] Do I come to your house and fuck your wife?
[cut to a closeup of Phil's lips]
PHIL: [whispers] No! This is a fucking library, not a loud room, okay?
[cut to a closeup of the patron's shocked face]
PHIL: [whispers] Not to be loud in!
[cut back to Phil]
PHIL: [whispers] I got bigger fish to fuck!
[he puts a finger to his lips]
PHIL: [whispers] Shhhhhhhhh ...
[he continues to shush the patron, as he gets up (still bent over) and walks bow-legged backwards, never taking his eye off the patron]
[cut back to Sean (who turns to the camera with a blank expression and grins), then cut to Phil sitting at a computer and typing "totally overdue books" into a search box]
[cut to Sean peeking out from behind a bookshelf (with the same dead eyes and creepy smile), then back to Phil as he clicks the "Search" button]
[cut to Phil shelving more books, as Sean suddenly pops up on the other side of the bookcase and stares at him]
SEAN: [whispers] Hey!
PHIL: [whispers] Hey!
SEAN: [whispers] So did you find any overdue books?
PHIL: [whispers] Yeah! There's one that's been checked out for a year!
SEAN: [whispers] A year?!
PHIL: [whispers] A year!
SEAN: [whispers] Let's check it out!
PHIL: [whispers] Okay! Hey, Sean?
SEAN: [whispers] Yeah?
PHIL: [whispers] Does putting books away ever give you a boner?!
[he nods his head vigorously]
SEAN: [whispers] Yeah!
PHIL: [whispers] Okay, good! Me too!
[he laughs and runs off, then cut to the two walking out of the library as David Bowie's "Young Americans" plays in the background]
[the music abruptly stops, then cut to a closeup of a doorbell being pushed (as more ominous music plays in the background)]
[cut to another male patron opening the door, as the two librarians are standing there staring at him]
KEITH: Yeah?
[the two librarians turn to each other, then turn back to the patron]
PHIL: [whispers] Are you Keith Baumann?
KEITH: Yeah.
[the two librarians look at each other again, then turn back to the patron]
SEAN: [whispers] Of Fifty Six Crestwood Drive?
KEITH: Yeah.
PHIL: [whispers] We're from the library ... We're here to get your overdue book!
[Sean looks over his shoulder, then back at the patron]
SEAN: [whispers] And fifty seven dollars in late fees!
[he cocks his head to the side, as the patron gives them a confused look]
KEITH: Why are you whispering?
[they both put a finger to their lips and shush him]
KEITH: Y'know, you have no way of enforcing these kinda things! I don't even know where the book is, and I'm not gonna look for it! And I'm not gonna pay that ridiculous fine!
[the two librarians simply turn to each other and stare]
KEITH: So why don't you two just fuck off?
[he slams the door shut, as the two continue to stand there, then they both turn to each other]
SEAN AND PHIL: [whispers] Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
[cut to the patron on the floor in his underwear, gagged with his hands and feet bound in duct tape, as the librarians walk into the room (as Sean is holding a knife)]
[cut to Phil walking over and kneels down next to their victim, taking the gag out of his mouth]
KEITH: Okay! Okay, I'll find the book! I'll get you the money! Just lemmee go!
[he starts to cry, when Phil takes a copy of Clive Barker's "Mister B. Gone" from behind his back]
PHIL: [whispers] But we already found the book!
[cut to Sean (still holding the knife), as he lifts up his other hand to show a wad of dollar bills]
SEAN: [whispers] And the money!
[cut to a closeup of the knife being thrust downward, as the patron begins screaming in pain]
[cut to both librarians (now each with a knife and their faces covered in blood) standing over the unseen patron and thrusting downward, as the screams continue]
[cut back to the public library, as the camera pans across the bookshelves while the image of Phil speaking directly to the camera is super-imposed over the footage]
PHIL: [whispers] They say you should never judge a book by its cover ...
[cut to one of the librarian's hands as it spins a rotating book rack, then the image of Sean speaking directly to the camera appears over the footage]
SEAN: [whispers] But what if that cover ... is murder?
[the hand stops on a copy of the Quantum Leap novel "Loch Ness Leap", then cut to more footage of bookshelves (as the images of Sean and Phil move back and forth across the screen]
PHIL: [whispers] What if there's blood between the bindings?
SEAN: [whispers] Food for thought, in troubled times ...
[cut to Phil kneeling down in front of one of the bookshelves, as he looks up at the camera (with a grim look on his face) and nods, then the scene fades to black]

Executive Producers
Sean Lynch
Philip Laird

Special Guest Stars
Keith Beshwate
Steven Baumann

Librarians

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From wikipedia.org:

Channel 101 is a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in New York City, Channel 101 NY. Channel 101 is a creation of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length. The event is structured such that a panel of previously successful submitters choose what pilots are shown, and a live audience at The Downtown Independent decides which pilots continue as a series for the next screening in much the same way TV programs are rated and managed. According to the Channel 101 website, "Channel 101 is a chance to sit in the worn-out chair of the fat network exec, drunk on the blood of lowly artists whose right to exist is given in exchange for their ability to nourish...You run the network. You pick the programming."

Concept
Roughly once a month, a screening for Channel 101 occurs at the Downtown Independent theater in Los Angeles, with (usually) ten shorts being screened. At the screening, the audience votes on which pilots they would like to see return. The top five shows are entered into the "prime time" slots on the Channel 101 website, and get to make a follow-up episode for the next screening. This process continues with new "episodes" being shown at each screening until one fails to make the top five, at which point the series is "cancelled." Some successful shows also can choose to be cancelled voluntarily by running over five minutes, (The first to do so being Ultraforce), disqualifying the show from continuing and leaving one last un-voted episode. Shows that fail to make the prime time spot are known as "failed pilots." An added benefit of having a prime time series is that prime time directors are part of the panel that decides which five new pilots will be shown alongside the five established shows from the previous screening. Shows that fail to make the screenings are known as "rejected pilots." Each calendar year of the festival is referred to as a "season," comprising 10 screenings, due to there being no December screening, plus month break "to allow the creators to rest" between spring/summer and the November screening, which is the yearly awards show (The Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Award or "Channy," so named as a parody of Emmy). The Channy Awards have been held 8 times as of 2012.

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From wikia.com:

"Librarians"

Created by Sean Lynch and Philip Laird.

* SCREENING DATE Sunday, August 30th - 2009
* AUDIENCE SHARE 21.7% (10th at screening with 35 votes)

Two librarians make their mark.

Fun Facts
According to Sean Lynch, had this continued as a series, their homoerotic relationship would have been developed, as well as eventually revealing that the Librarians are Mormon and illiterate. And related by blood.

Case Study No. 1198: Staff of the Sayville Library

Captain Amazing
4:09
Captain Amazing tours Sayville Library
Tags: library card long island Suffolk library libraries Live-brary.com Live-brary sayville captain amazing
Added: 3 years ago
From: sayvillelibrary
Views: 1,388

["Sayville Library presents ... Captain Amazing" appears on screen, then cut to a superhero with a red cape and Zorro mask "flying" through the air (i.e. lying on his stomach in front of a green screen depicting blue sky and clouds)]
[cut to Captain Amazing "landing" in front of a still image of the Great Pyramids, as he turns to the camera and shrugs his shoulders]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Eh.
[cut to Captain Amazing "landing" in front of a still image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, as he turns to the camera and shrugs his shoulders]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Eh.
[cut to Captain Amazing "landing" in front of a still image of a waterfall, as he turns to the camera and shrugs his shoulders]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Eh.
[cut to Captain Amazing "landing" in front of a still image of the Great Wall of China, as he turns to the camera and shrugs his shoulders]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Eh.
[cut to Captain Amazing "flying" away from China, then cut to him and a still image of the Sayville Library]
[cut to Captain Amazing actually standing in front of the Sayville Library]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Sayville Library? I have my library card.
[he holds up an oversized library card]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Let's check it out!
[he runs into the library, then cut to Captain Amazing looking at some artwork hanging on the wall]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: An art gallery in the library? That's amazing!
[cut to the childrens' section, as some children are sitting around a fake tree and reading books]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Reading under the tree at the library? That's amazing!
[cut to some children sitting at the computer terminals]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Homework help in the library?
ALL: That's amazing!
[cut to Captain Amazing sitting at a table with a group of children painting miniature pumpkins]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Wow, crafts at the library?
ALL: That's amazing!
[cut to two children walking up to the female librarian at the front desk]
CHILD 1: Can we have some laptops?
LIBRARIAN 1: Sure!
[she hands them each a laptop]
CHILD 2: Thank you!
LIBRARIAN 1: You're welcome!
CHILD 1: Thank you!
LIBRARIAN 1: You're welcome!
[Captain Amazing suddenly pops up behind the librarian]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Laptops at the library? That's amazing!
[cut to Captain Amazing standing outside of a study room]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: [whispering] Studying at the library? That's amazing!
[cut to Captain Amazing sitting with a group of patrons]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: Having fun at the library? That's amazing!
[he high-fives one of the male patrons, then cut to another male patron asking the male librarian at the front desk a question]
PATRON: Hi, how ya doing?
LIBRARIAN 2: Good, how are you?
PATRON: Good. I have a quick question. I was wondering, do you have "Iron Man" available on Blu-Ray?
LIBRARIAN 2: Let me take a look ...
[he types on his computer]
LIBRARIAN 2: Looks like we should have a copy, let me show you.
PATRON: That's great.
[he gets up]
LIBRARIAN 2: Right this way ...
PATRON: Thank you.
[cut to the two walking up to the DVD shelf]
LIBRARIAN 2: All of our new movies are on this shelf. We have Blu-Rays here, marked in blue. Our regular DVDs, and we also have Quick Flicks, which are extra copies of our most popular movies. They're a three-day loan, and there are no renewals or reserves ...
[he reaches up and grabs a Blu Ray]
LIBRARIAN 2: Let's see, "Iron Man" ...
[he hands it to the patron]
LIBRARIAN 2: Here's "Iron Man" on Blu-Ray.
PATRON: Oh, great! Thank you very much!
LIBRARIAN 2: You're welcome ...
[Captain Amazing suddenly pops up]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: All the latest movies at the library? That's amazing!
[cut to an older female patron sitting in a chair reading a magazine, as Captain Amazing pops up behind her]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: [whispering] A reading room at the library? That's amazing!
[cut to Captain Amazing back outside the library, holding the oversized library card]
CAPTAIN AMAZING: It sure is amazing what you can do with a library card!
[cut to Captain Amazing "flying" against the blue sky/clouds while carrying a stack of books]

Thanks to
Tim Cowan as
Captain Amazing

Photo Credits:
Pyramids - Ricardo Liberato
Leaning Tower of Pisa - Alkarex Malin Ager
Waterfall - www dot bibleplaces dot com
Great Wall of China - Jakub Halun

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From ny.us:

President of the Senior Class Timothy Cowan

"A young man who has worked tirelessly on behalf of the Class of 2011, a remarkable role model, and a very special person in our High School." Principal Ron Hoffer

"Hello. Hey! Hi... What's up! How are you?" Timothy Cowan greeted his classmates and humorously precused as intentional any accidental stutters, fumbles, or mispronunciations during his speech.

After a serious moment, acknowledging "all those going off to serve our country" with a round of applause, Tim opened his Response for the Class with the quote: "Some say 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' and the picture I see right now is no exception. From this moment on, my speech will be precisely one-thousand words, explaining exactly what I see."

Tim began by describing what he could actually could see from the podium: "some who are tired of sitting and listening to people speak... proud parents, excited students, some of whom are rapidly counting fingers attempting to disprove my one-thousand-word promise." After, he added his insights about his classmates: "but what I see most is a group of passionate and powerful individuals. I see the strong, the brave, the intelligent, the outgoing, the persuasive, the fabulous, the beautiful and much more. I see a group of capable people who can accomplish anything they put their minds to. We are not the future of just our little town of Sayville, not of New York, not even of the United States, but WE are the future of the world... capable of achieving all of our dreams, and each one of us is the best at something... As I look out into the crowd, I don't see a group of random faces; I see a network of supporting individuals, ready to fight, ready to succeed."

Reflecting on what their generation has experienced and "survived together," from Pokeman to Facebook, Tim stated "We have become stronger as a nation due to terrorism, we have become a generation competent in technology, we have illustrated our ability to adapt in any situation, which will help us as we further grow. We have witnessed the election of the first black president; we have seen cloning, new medicine, new games, new everything and we will continue to see new advancements. We will live longer, and pretty soon we will travel in flying cars, or at least I like to think so. We came, we saw, we conquered, and we will continue to do so."

With a smile Tim added, "I can promise you that we were the best class of 2011 Sayville High School will ever see...." When the chuckles subsided, Tim admitted, "To be honest, I think our class is the best they'll ever see. We have certainly left quite an impression."

This included calling their own assemblies, dunk tanks, ice cream trucks, and winning homecoming.

Recalling High School lessons learned—real, silly, and humbling—an how they will help in the future, Tim confessed certain lessons have made him "more outgoing, more willing to make a fool of myself.... on that note of making a fool of myself, I was requested to say this, 'That's amazing,'" which elicited cheers from his classmates. (Go to Sayville Public Library's website to see Tim's alter ego, Captain Amazing, in a video showcasing the new library.)

Aware that his word count was limited, Tim remarked, "It is at this moment I realize exactly how hard it is to explain a picture in a thousand words," but thanked everyone who ever gave him support (and with fifty-eight words) left, Tim congratulated his classmates, had confidence they would find success "I would not be surprised to find out many of you have become CEOs, doctors, lawyers, and millionaires or even billionaires depending on the inflationary rate, " and ended his speech by pulling out a camera, requesting "everyone please say 'cheese," because this is the picture I will remember forever..." and snapped the shutter.

Case Study No. 1197: Mr. Penny Dreadful, the Lunatic Librarian

Lunatic Librarian -- "BeCide Myself"
2:51
The Lunatic Librarian explains why he is, well, a lunatic. All music and lyrics are the property of the Lunatic Librarian.
To connect with the Librarian, please check out the following links:
The Librarian's Facebook: http://www.face book.com/mrpennydreadful
The Librarian's Twitter: http://twit ter.com/MrPennyDreadful
The Librarian's Art Collective: http://www.face book.com/thelibraryrecordings
The Librarian's Official Website: http://www.lunatic librarian.com
Tags: Rapping (Profession) lunatic librarian penny dreadful horrocore sad poetry the library music and poetry
Added: 6 months ago
From: OfficialPuppetVox
Views: 105

[scene opens with black and white footage of a male librarian (slicked back hair, glasses, tweed jacket, facepaint) reading a book, then cut to various shots of him writhing on the floor as the camera shakes violently, as he begins to sing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Let us now get psychological, now let us wonder why, would a man possessing everything so deeply wish to die!
[cut to another shot of the librarian clawing at his jacket as the camera shakes violently, then back to him singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: I'm not but a wooden puppet, I do not know what is true! I'm not but a lifeless robot, with a programmed CPU!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: So much turmoil in my spirit, so much anger in my heart! I am nothing but the sum of sewn-together body parts!
[cut to another shot of the librarian as the camera shakes violently, then back to him singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Blaming god, blaming Satan, blaming my own wretched mind! Or the fact that I'm a monster of the most abhorrent kind!
[cut to a closeup of the librarian's face, as the "swirl" effect is used to distort the image]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: I would like to build a shrine, I would like to build a pyre!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: And then douse myself in gasoline and all-consuming fire! Crush my bones, crack my skull! I can't bear to show my face! And my instruments of torture have become quite commonplace!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: I will wallow in the plasma, I will gloat among the gore!
[cut to another shot of the librarian reading his book]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: I will force-feed the establishments which made me such a whore!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: It's a struggle to forget, it's a struggle to forgive!
[cut to another shot of the librarian holding his book]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: And if this life is my fate, then maybe I shouldn't live!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Certain stages of development, it seems that I have skipped!
[cut to the librarian ripping a page out of his book]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: From the pages of DSM-Four, it seems my life was ripped!
[cut to a closeup of the ripped page hitting the ground]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Wretched love and sexuality, they make me curious!
[cut back to the librarian as he slams the ruined book shut]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Lovers kissing, lovers touching, and it makes me furious!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Giving up any last hope, of kissing her lips so red! Use the graveyard as a brothel, fornicating with the dead! I know Satan wants my spirit, he beguiles me with grief!
[cut to a closeup of the librarian's face, as the camera shakes violently]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: And although I pray to god for help, I receive no relief!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: All my bitterness is growing, I want my own life to end! But if I now choose to kill myself, please tell me will I spend ...
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: My eternity inside the city filled with loving grace, where the son of god will dry my tears inside his warm embrace?
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: Or will I wake to find myself inside hell's ghastly gates, where I will be raped by demons as my spirit immolates?
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing]
LUNATIC LIBRARIAN: So now patiently I wait, trapped inside this world of pain! For the spirit of the living god to mend my broken brain!

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From lunaticlibrarian.com:

Lunatic Librarian
AKA Mr. Penny Dreadful.
Horrifying Supernatural-Themed Rap Poetry, from the dark corridors of the Library.

From the artistic shadows of ATL emerges The Lunatic Librarian Mr. Penny Dreadful--rapper, producer, spoken-word poet, and freestyler extraordinaire! Mr. Dreadful began his musical and poetic career in high school, during which time he would often host cyphers for his schoolmates between classes and during lunch period as a way to relieve stress and channel positive energy. Although initially a bright and cheerful rapper, Penny's darkside began to emerge early on in his college years, after he experienced several dark trials which resulted in a radical personal transformation. Donning facepaint, he abandoned his previous monikers in exchange for his current stage name. Currently, the Librarian is actively writing, recording, and playing shows, and has performed opening sets for artists such as Dark Half, Razakel, and Twisted Insane. He has recently launched an art collective, The Library Music and Poetry, in an effort to support musicians sharing his unique vision. Stay Tuned!!!

Case Study No. 1196: Carlos Martinez (Wannabe Librarian)

Books without Words by Spanish mime actor Carlos Martinez
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A visit to the library. The actor pokes around between book covers that get his attention, here and there he thumbs through a book, and slowly he gets lost among endless bookshelves.

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Books without Words, performed by Carlos Martinez, was chosen by the audience as the winner of the 5th edition of the TeatroAgosto festival held in Fundao, Portugal, in August 2009!
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New show "Books without words" by Spanish mime actor Carlos Martinez

A visit to the library. The actor pokes around between book covers that get his attention, here and there he thumbs through a book, and slowly he gets lost among endless bookshelves. Suddenly the imaginative scripts and letters change into movements and action. The body and hands of the mime speak volumes. Known and unknown heroes conquer the stage. Episodes of stories appeal to the viewer's capacity to remember and recall long-forgotten moments of famous literary works. How did Sherlock Holmes solve his most intricate case? And what was the name of Don Quixote's helper? Sometimes a sequence resembles a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. And we feel the urge to rush over and have a look at the huge tome on the shelf.

Based on the scene in the library, Carlos Martinez offers his audience a mesh of narrative yarns that intertwine his own with well-known stories. The driving force of the show is the joy of discovering and experimenting. It's not always clear if the actor is just spinning a tale or diving into the story himself like in the piece "Aquarium". From the high spheres of literature, the mime takes us down to the more mundane occurrences of daily life. He clearly shows us the culinary morsels you find between the covers of a recipe book and the exquisite delights hidden inside a box of chocolates. And then he allures us into the lowlands of human nature where the bittersweet lurks as others stumble over a stone that we put in their way.

Finally he lets us participate in a very intimate discovery in front of a mirror. He lets us see that behind all the masks that we have put on during our lifetime a unique individual is concealed. As we leave the hall at the end of the show, after we have broken free from the spell of the enchanting mime, we feel like an open book ourselves from which the actor has just read.

Between the covers of a book endless treasures are hidden. So much knowledge and wisdom, and more than a few deep secrets can be revealed. However, books are made for people who can read. According to UNESCO estimates, on a global scale one in five adults cannot read nor write and 776 million people are illiterate, two-thirds of these being women. That is why the UN declared 2003 until 2012 as the Literacy Decade. The goal of this decade is to increase the literacy rate 50% by 2015 with a focus on the 35 countries with the lowest literacy rate in the world.

The show "Books without Words" links very directly with another mime show of Carlos Martinez: "Human Rights". Literacy is a Human Right, as it is a basic prerequisite for any kind of education. Educational opportunities depend on literacy. And literacy is a tool of personal empowerment and a means for social and human development.

This is the secret power and fascination of mime. When it comes to reading body language and broadening our minds through the art of mime, no one in the world is illiterate.

Throughout 2009 Carlos Martinez can be seen in different theatres and countries around Europe (Germany, Latvia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal).

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As a mime actor from Spain, Carlos Martinez creates a world of imaginative silence that combines his Mediterranean spirit and humour with precise technique and rhythm. However, his very personal language is also universal, giving him an open stage in conventions, festivals, television, theatres and trade shows around the globe. He is constantly moving the boundaries of silence in his own shows such as Books without Words, Hand Made, My Bible, Human Rights and Time To Celebrate, with which he celebrated the 25th aniversary as mime actor in 2007. Carlos Martinez runs an elite summer mime school, tutors advanced students and gives Master classes at corporate events.