Answer a Question with a Question...

[Patch]

If the selection of new releases was similar, whether a "brick & mortar" library or a traveling library, why wouldn't you use the traveling version and not have to deal with as many users crowding the premises?

 

[Lavinia]

Is a library usually crowded?

 

[Kaila]

Are we trying to avoid a crowd, even if it is very small, orderly, and respectful and friendly?

 

[Patch]

Could I possibly be suffering from anthropophobia?

 

[Lavinia]

Does the fact that it has an official name indicate how common it is?

 

[Tish]

It must be don't you think?

 

[Kaila]

Should I be thinking about that, when I would prefer to think about other topics?

 

[Patch]

Are the other topics of which you want to speak easier to spell than anthropophobia?

 

[Lavinia]

Don't you find spelling a complex word is easier if you break it down into its components?

 

[Tish]

Does that work?

 

[Patch]

May I answer with an emphatic "Yes!"??

 

[Lavinia]

Does anyone carry around one of those tiny dictionaries?

 

[Tish]

What for?

 

[Lavinia]

I suppose you use your phone for all information?

 

[Patch]

Who needs a dictionary or a phone when, would you believe, I authored every volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica??

 

[Kaila]

How long did that take?

 

[Lavinia]

Do you remember when there used to be people selling encyclopedias on the doorstep?

 

[Kaila]

Did they take a series over time, of small partial payments for them?

 

[Tish]

How much was a small payment?

 

[Patch]

Would it surprise us how what we consider a "small payment" today would compare with a "small payment" back when Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book Encyclopedia, etc. were our main source of reference?

 

[Lavinia]

Did you find they helped with school work?

 

[Patch]

Do you know I have memories of exactly where the Encyclopedia Britannica volumes sat in their bookcase and I used them many times to assist with school work.

 

[Lavinia]

So your mother wasn't in the habit of re-arranging the furniture?

 

[Kaila]

Isn't it amazing that we can remember certain details of our long ago past, such as where things were located in the household?

 

[Lavinia]

Can you remember what your first swimsuit was like?