Music, sweet music… – The Answer Wall

This year has been the equivalent of waking up drunk on the floor of a Trump Tower bathroom with

You wrote nothing to complete your question, so I’ll assume you meant to write “nothing”. Waking up on any bathroom floor, drunk and with nothing is certainly a terrible situation regardless of which tower you find yourself in. But as with hangovers, this horrible year will eventually end. With full sincerity, I’m wishing you and everyone else a happier new year.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.