The TWO CULTURES IN INFORMATION WORK The SECOND ASLIB ANNUAL LECTURE

‘OH!’ said Miss Dartle, ‘Now I am glad to know that, I ask for information and I am glad to know it.’ You will recall that when David Copperfield went to bed a little later on that night he was haunted by Rosa Dartle and her questions. He found a startling likeness of her, looking eagerly at him from the chimney‐piece in his bedroom, and he wondered peevishly why they couldn't have put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on him. Though he undressed quickly, put out the light and got into bed, he couldn't forget that she was still there, looking. ‘Is it really, though?’ ‘I want to know’—and when he awoke in the night he found he was uneasily asking all sorts of people in his dreams whether it really was or not, without knowing what he meant.