"Ook,” said the Librarian.*

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*Who was an orangutan, changed from his former human shape as a result of a long-forgotten magical accident. It was so forgotten, in fact, that now people were forgetting he was an orangutan. This might seem quite hard to do, given that even a small orangutan is quite capable of filling up all immediately available space, but to the wizards and most of the citizens he was now just the Librarian, and that was that. In fact, if somebody ever reported that there was an orangutan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he’d seen it."

— Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, p. 42 (trade paperback edition)

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