h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

re 59:

It is barren, the timber line being so much lower this far north, but beautiful none the less

as for rum and ropes

I don't think rum and ropes are in any way connected. I used to have rum in my kitchen cupboard, and a rope in my office at work. Both instances were coincidences.

Why would you have ropes in your office? Did you show them to young librarians?

It was a second-floor office where I cataloged books. At the time, there was nbo fire escape, so I tied one end of the rope to the radiator. In casew of fire, I could open the window and climb down to the ground.

Sensible

I am surrounded by empty rum barrels at work - enough to make a pirate cry.

wot do you do if you got heart disease and of high risk of

I think that is awful, even if you are fit. Hit the fire alarm and wait for trouble when the fire dept finds the library to be illegal.

An accessible window in a room on the second floor counts as a fire escape even if there's nothing to climb, because it can still be reached by a fire truck ladder.

I never thought of that, Malabarista. Good point!

They put in a fire escape eventually, but I kept the rope. Eventually, I left that job for one on the main floor of the same building.