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Um. He hasn't got much of a sense of humor, either."
"You're Omnian, by the sound of it." Yes."
"Here to talk about the treaty?"
"I do the listening."
"And what do you want to know about gods?"
Brutha appeared to be listening.
Eventually he said: "How they start. How they grow. And what happens to them afterwards."
Didactylos put the tortoise into Brutha's hands.
"Costs money, that kind of thinking," he said.
"Let me know when we've used more than fifty-two obols' worth," said Brutha. Didactylos grinned.
"Looks like you can think for yourself," he said. "Got a good memory?"
"No. Not exactly a good one."
"Right? Right. Come on into the Library. It's got an earthed copper roof, you know. Gods really hate that sort of thing."
Didactylos of illusory words. Spotters' guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other lireached down beside him and picked up a rusty iron lantern.Brutha looked up at the big white building."That's the Library?" he said."Yes," said Didactylos. "That's why it's got LIBRVM carved over the door in such big letters. But a scribe like you'd know that, of course." The Library of Ephebe was-before it burned down-the second biggest on the Disc.Not as big as the library in Unseen University, of course, but that library had one or two advantages on account of its magical nature. No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books-books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries braries, everywhere and everywhen . . .
And so unlike the Library at Ephebe, with its four or five hundred