The computing section. Silence. Volumes untouched by student hands, pages without a crease. Game Coding gathers dust, last taken out in January 2010 by a boy who just wanted to see the pictures. Under every librarian's "shush" one can hear the desperate cries of books unread, having never been enjoyed or appreciated by the eyes of a reader, screams muffled by dust, no one hears them. How To Program Java flies from its shelf, as if setting itself up to trap a reader between its 1580 pages, only for it to be roughly shoved back in the right place.
Other volumes lay beneath shelves, left by students intending to return for them. They stay silent, waiting for their rescue, but they'll be waiting for a long time, those students to longer go here.
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