That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 08, 2024

(Yet again, Steve’s caption is the best possible response to this painting.)

/// In King’s Library, Encyclopædists

are researching the best orthopedists.

Cloaked in red, Diderot,

has a freakish torso.

(Was he stretched on the rack by extremists?)

Gentlemen, since we’ve have written everything there is to know, and we’ve run out of room for more encyclopedies, I propose we call it quits and go for a beer.

Don’t worry Jacques, we will clear some more space on those upper shelves, so you can use them to get down, just climb thru the railing, hang from the lower railing and swing your feet into the empty shelf. It will all go smoothly after that, we are quite sure after careful consideration and argument.

Ahem! The saying is the one who smelt it, delt it.

“Before the Fall of Trantor, a special section of the Imperial Library was dedicated to exhibits of rare printed books.

“For example, the Isaac Asimov Collection contained related artifacts gleaned from many of the inhabited worlds in the Galactic Empire. Facsimiles of his 500 books were available first-hand to select scholars. Also available were audio recordings, videos, and numerous art materials and games. His series of Limericks books were especially popular with visitors (over 21 years of age).

“Holographic images of ‘The Good Doctor’ were available upon request to explain his many awards and honors in great detail.”

N.B. “The major portion of these items and exhibits are in 5D-Space storage until as such time they may be safely displayed against plunder by vandals from remaining outer-world Mule Factions.”

Every morning the lads would gather/

At the library, where they would blather/

On matters of state/

And of similar weight../

Though the house of ill fame’s where they’d rather..

A cluster of human carrion/

Harassing the hapless librarian/

Who has not been depicted/

Since the pic is restricted/

To atheists: she’s Rastafarian.

Pictured above: Early development of mosh pit techniques, specifically jump height and audience awareness.

Oh look, somebody dropped a franc.

The progressive gentlemen of National Rally are eagerly awaiting the appearance of their queen, Marie Le Pen, to lead them into 21st Century France.

“Help ! I’m white and I can’t get down!”

couldn’t find my real ladder, we’ll have to use my step ladder

He’s been stranded up there since we discovered a structural underperformance issue with OSB shelving. Our maintenance crew and structural engineers are working toward a solution.

They’re in process to form a committee to study the feasibility of ladder acquisition. Keep your pants on.

They’re waiting for Mssr. Dewey to confirm that all his decimals are in place.

I have to use the toilet & if you don’t let me down now – it will be on your heads.

The Encyclopaedists in the King’s Library: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Benjamin Eugène Fichel" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 449, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, along with a Description. If your browser isn’t set up to handle .tif images, to see an enlarged image there and avoid the 17.38 MB image download to your device, click a size under the image, rather than the image itself. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3351 (July 8, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by him have been used here, the September 10, 2020, strip being the prior.

“Oh, he’ll be alright. They always get down, you know. You never see the skeleton of a librarian at the top of a bookshelf.”

the gay professor was giving “instruction” in the rooms rear.

“The Encyclopaedists in the King’s Library”

Gentlemen! Shocking news! I found the thesaurus, but it is blank. I have no words to describe how angry I am!

Seen here just before his introduction of “stage diving”, Benjamin would shortly be introduced to the local hôpita.l

Just ignore him. He goes out of his way to get attention.

That looks a LOT like the interior of the J. P. Morgan Library in NYC! There is an upper row just like that. When I was there last, I happened to see how they gain access to the upper level — there must be a stairway behind the bookshelves because one of the upper level’s bookshelves had been swung open to let a person through.

“Who’s bright idea was it to put the guide for the Dewey Decimal System on the top shelf?”

I can’t help but wonder what/

Is hanging from Diderot’s butt/

Is it two chopsticks that/

He has recently sat/

On – whilst dining at “Wong’s Hong Kong Hut?”

This is why Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University had an ape as the librarian – he had no trouble accessing the top tier.