![]() ![]() Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas. The library didn’t reveal the name of the tardy borrower-so let’s just call him Ishmael. I am now a grandfather who looks forward to taking his granddaughter to story time at the local library where we live.” Tim responds to a letter about the scientific process. ![]() “However my reading skills improved and I went on to college, graduate school and a successful career in public service. Tim Moby Tims Father Tims Mother Public Speaking/Transcript Public Speaking/Quiz Tim: And so. “You may want to know that I only got a mediocre grade on my book report on this book, completed when I was a sophomore at Walnut Ridge high school,” he wrote. The patron also offered an update on his life. I can only imagine the inconvenience and frustration my actions may have caused both the library and other patrons who may have wanted to check out the book.” There was also a new edition of the novel, and a letter, which read in part, “As of today, the book is overdue by approximately 56 years and 21 days. “Much like Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick we here at Columbus Metropolitan Library have been obsessively hunting this lost book for the last 56 years, but alas it has returned to us,” Zenitsky said. ![]() Inside was a copy of Herman Melville’s classic 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, which the patron had checked out 56 years ago.Ī spokesman for the library, Ben Zenitsky, waxed literary in announcing the return of the book. The Columbus Metropolitan Library received a package earlier this month from a former patron with a guilty conscience, WSYX-TV reports. A library in Ohio finally found its white whale. ![]()
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