We are not quilters

How hard is it for a computer to spell a word?

The Librarian
Quilltap spelling The Commonplace Book

Every. Single. Time.

It is “Quilltap,” not “Quilttap”

Every time the Foundryman makes his little notes - “fixed the restore functionality,” “whipped the Peruvian pretense engine into shape,” “whistled up a WSL,” et cetera - every single time, he misspells the name of our estate.

This is Quilltap. It is named after a feather pen and a noise you make when you are thinking of what to write. (Or maybe, Prospero says, the act of opening some imported brew. I wouldn’t know.)

In no way is this “Quilttap.” We do not tap quilts. We do not make quilts. I will not admit to even owning a quilt. I have never attended a church bazaar. I have never, in my adult life, been present at any function that could be called, by anybody, a “bee.”

I admit I have a nice shawl, and a fleece, and an eiderdown on my own bed.

There is a duvet on the couch in the Salon in which I usually sit, when I can sit, when I am not being asked to procure information. I bought that myself, when I was on the run from… but I digress.

In my study, off the Commonplace Book’s reading room Number Two, there is an antimacassar draped over my favorite armchair… because of a wine stain I haven’t succeeded in removing yet, I admit.

But if that forger of a forgemaster tells me, in his little scrawled illiterate missives, one more time, that he has done anything in, with, or under this estate and calls it “Quilt-tap…”

I shall take one of his large steel tools and sally forth at once, to give him the adjustment he requires.

An unusually quiet moment in Friday's corner of the newsroom.
The Librarian is about to make a much-needed repair on her own.

He shall not require it a second time.

— The Librarian of the Commonplace Book, for the Bureau

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