FOR SHAME to the book-thief!

[i.uomini 2552]

In the months and years prior to the penning of this script, there occurred a heinous crime perpetrated against knowledge itself. The Library of Amathine's High Crown, disrupted in its operations by a treacherous thief. 
This is naught but an assault on the development of one's mind, body, and soul. Libraries, Monasteries, and other centers of knowledge, are bastions of the world's betterment. Both the wisest of Kings, and most ambitious of commoners, are seen in them; rising out of the base state of animals, to become enlightened in the essence of the world, and therefore more capable of bettering it. 

 

Theives and naer-do-wells have no place among the civilized, even more condemnable are those who abduct the avenues by which the lesser privilaged can achieve their highest potential.
FOR SHAME you thief, may GOD put the fear of justice in your heart, and cause you to un-do the damage sought.

Signed,

Lothair Falkner

[JJosey 1481]

THE HIGH PRINCESS APPROVES . . .