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Shera captures the situation with his usual wit in his Automation without Fear: "[I]t is now the 'little black box'; which is the bete noir of the library profession--the diabolus ex machina that is the recipient of professional scorn, the Pandora's chest from whence all evil swarms. The World, Sin, Flesh, Devil and Death (Mundus, Peccatum, Caro, Diabolus and Mors), are located around the central figure, the Knight in armour. He described the distortion of Adams' melody as an act of theft--stealing time from some notes--and devilish tricks, including the alteration of one of Adams' b-flats to an e-natural (invoking the dreaded interval of the tritone, the diabolus in musica). |
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