The Old Library [the green part of the library complex] boasts a lifesize statue on top of its pointy dome. This naked silver figure, which holds a book, represents Sophia, or knowledge, but everyone in the library calls her Scanty Sophie. No one knows why she has no hair or clothes, but people generally agree that the sculptor, whose name is mercifully lost to time, couldn’t sculpt cloth or hair very well.
Anyway, old-timers at the library always tell newcomers that Scanty Sophie comes down from her pedestal and lurks around the fashion section, trying to find something to wear. Some people swear that they’ve seen her, but they’re also the same people who are certain that a dragon — a book wyrm, to be precise — slumbers below the library’s foundation.
Scanty Sophie is a textureless Daz model, the free Victoria 2. Her book is just a cube primitive rescaled.
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I find myself thinking of Borges’ Library of Babel and Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners.