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Apart from the whole people paying me to do what I love thing, my favorite part of academia is access to the university library. Case in point: there is a book entitled "Man into wolf, an anthropological interpretation of sadism, masochism, and lycanthropy." I mean, it's actually available via the internet archive, but I wouldn't have known it existed without the kind of crazy search engine my library recently added. It sounds like the finest sort of crack. (I'm now waiting for somebody on my flist to be familiar with this book & to correct me on its crackiness, but just reading the description...)

Anyway. I thought that might be relevant to some of your interests, dear flist.

The university library, of course, is good for all sorts of random things. Not so good on the fiction, but would you like a zillion books on the history of cooking in America? How about several dozen devoted solely to the statistical quantity called the likelihood? Library bookshelves are practically fractal in the width of their subject matter, I love it.