Abel and I are members of a private library: a venerable establishment over 100 years old, with an archive of books on social sciences and arts. There are wooden desks with lamps and chairs, rows and rows of bookcases, and a winding metal staircase to a gallery up top.
That’s where the education section is, in the opposite corner from the staircase. When I go up there, the steps clang under the soles of my shoes, and then, no matter how daintily I walk, my every step on the old creaky boards announces to the readers downstairs: “Here’s another pervert going to the education section!” (Or, to the readers who go there as often as I do: “Here’s that pervert going to the education section again.”)
Obviously, not every book has anything interesting to say about corporal punishment; some are just really dull memoirs of dull educators with dust in their wigs. And yet… there is plenty for us to sink our spanko teeth in.
This looked like a good source of posts for the new year. In the future I’m going to post the juicy extracts from this glorious archive. You’ll like it, I promise.
P.S. And we haven’t even really started on the prison records yet. Or naval history. Or the Romans. Some of those books are less embarrassingly located, I hope.
I can’t wait! Those were the good old days, all right!
I am busy reading Harriot Marwood, Governess at the moment. Must have been wonderful to be (or have) a governess. Maybe that’s subconsciously why I trained as a teacher!
Hugs,
Hermione
Haron, I’m fairly certain that only a pervert would assume that a frequent study of education history must be for perverted purposes.
I hope that you go to the library wearing your shortest skirt and skimpiest panties so that, when you climb that staircase to the upper floor, all the other readers can see that Abel has ‘educated’ you enough with his cane.
What’s this – *another* Miss Marwood?! Hermione, I’m intrigued! (Having met a Miss Marwood in person during roleplay, I’m unsure whether this is pure coincidence or if I’ve discovered the source of the character’s inspiration! Do tell us more!
Haron – I’m sure that genuine educators and historians must use this section as well as perverts? Don’t they?! I’m sure your lessons will be much more interesting though 😉
This must be the Lit and Phil…is it still open, then? I thought it must have closed years ago. Must be 20 years since I was last inside – I no longer live in the area. Excellent place, and would love there to be something similar near here. BTW quite understand if you don’t want to post this on the blog…but feel free to reply to my email if you have the time and inclination.
Will just say too that I enjoy reading your writings, and have for about a year. Well written and erotic, a combination not too common on the web…
If you haven’t found it already – and I only recently did so myself – http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ is worth a visit. Try workhouse memories, particularly W H R
Kind regards
L
As a fan of public libraries in the American model, I was vaguely aware that they were conceived and implemented, in part, in progressive reaction against membership-only private libraries. But I had no idea that any such still existed in the world.
Yours sounds like a lot of fun.