Salvador Dali Dali at the Age of Six

Salvador Dali Dali at the Age of SixJoseph Mallord William Turner Frosty MorningJoseph Mallord William Turner WhitbyJoseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle
The Library of Ephebe was a furnace. The flames burned blue where the melted copper roof dripped on to the shelves.
All libraries, arms beat out the flames, pulled scrolls off the shelves, and stuffed them into a sack. When the sack was full, it knuckled back into the middle of the room . . . and vanished, with another pop.
This has nothing to do with the story.
Nor does the fact that, some time later, scrolls thought to have been destroyed in the Great Ephebian Library Fire turned up in remarkably good condition in the Library of Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork.
But it's nice to know, even so.everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong spacetime distortions found around any large collections of books.Only a very few librarians learn the secret, and there are inflexible rules about making use of the fact. Because it amounts to time travel, and time travel causes big problems.But if a library is on fire, and down in the history books as having been on fire . . .There was a small pop, utterly unheard among the crackling of the bookshelves, and a figure dropped out of nowhere on to a small patch of unburned floor in the middle of the Library.It looked ape-like, but it moved in a very purposeful way. Long simian