The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
Daniel HandlerAnd a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.
Daniel HandlerAll his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
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