Every librarian I have ever met has been a lovely person, one with a big heart. There may be one exception – the librarian who refused to let me borrow from the Adult library when, at eleven years old, I had read everything in the children’s section but I was too young to really know if she was simply obeying rules. My Dad had a word and I moved on to borrowing The Scarlet Pimpernel!
I imagine a librarian would be able to help the residents of York learn the meaning of obtundity. Looking it up, “obtundity in British English(ɒbˈtʌndɪtɪ ) noun: the state of having the senses numbed or less sharp. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. In fact, it wasn’t so much an instruction as a warning. See this article..
