Snippitts of Illusions

So here I am. Not working at Gossner's tonight, I did however work there last night. It's a wee more physical than the book store, but I knew that. At the bookstore I've been moved away from religion. Gene, my employer, feels that I was not dividing the books into finite enough of categories. He has very specific ideas about what should go on in the religion, though I do not completely agree with how finite he wants to make the categories, I can do nothing but say yes sir. I am cautious when sorting books, I lean towards the philosophy that to much organization can lead to chaos, just as to little is chaos. It can be summed up in a quote from Frank Herberts "The Dosadi Experiment": "The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos." Some of you are saying: 'how does this apply to books and sections of books?' The problem lies in maintaining the sections themselves. The more finite the sections are, the more difficult it will be to maintain the sections after customers have come into the store browsing through them. The more difficult it will be to judge what section a book that has much in common with other sections would go into. And the more difficult it will be to keep related sections from blending into each other. There is a need for distinct categories, but the categories must first make sense apart from related categories and must be easily maintainable as distinct categories.

Labels: bookstore, Life, musings

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 2:24 AM