the loveliest librarian

Miss Pynchon, Senior Librarian, Monique’s boss and the head of the donor program, had been uncharacteristically kind to Monique and invited her.

Miss Pynchon had never shown much kindness to her single employee, expecting much work and little complaint from the quiet, withdrawn Monique. Miss Pynchon was perhaps thirty-five, and was not by any means an unattractive woman. But her stern manner, her authoritarian posture, her conservative clothes and horn-rimmed glasses, made Monique regard Miss Pynchon as an authority figure and not a friend. Monique always did as Miss Pynchon said, never called in sick and never showed up late. But Miss Pynchon had still never smiled at Monique, and had never offered her a kind word or thanks. Monique didn’t mind that she and Miss Pynchon weren’t closer; she had come to accept the stern treatment and even to appreciate it — it was more sterile, and allowed Monique to keep more of her personality hidden. Since so much of her personality involved sexual fantasies of extreme submission, it was much safer this way. [p. 17-18]

Title: The Library
Creator: Morley, N. T.
Relation: The Library
Publisher: Masquerade Books
Date: 1998
Type: Text