“But, hey, this kind of thing’s going on in libraries everywhere, you know. More or less, that is.” This news staggered me. “In libraries everywhere?” I stammered. “If all they did was lend out knowledge for free, what would the payoff be for them?” “But that doesn’t give them the right to saw off the tops of people’s heads and eat their brains. Don’t you think that’s going a bit too far?” The sheep man looked at me sadly. “You got dealt an unlucky card, that’s the long and short of it. These things happen.”