Bookworm
Sam Kendig, Stephanie Dalquist
Each of the items on the list is a call number to a book in the MIT Libraries. The title or subject of each book hints at a single character.
N | KF27.5.C65 | (Taking the Stand: The Testimony of Lt Col Oliver L North, O.L. North, - N = North) |
A | PS1868.A1 | (The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne - The scarlet letter is "A") |
1 | TI71.M42g.C5 | (Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, Journal - course 1!) |
0 | PS3553.A413.F1 | (False entry, Hortense Calisher - False/true 0/1) |
5 | UA26.A475.S55 | (Assignment Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace, Perry M. Smith - duh) |
3 | PA3287.A7.L6 | (The Oresteia of Aeschylus, Robert Lowell, trans. - Three Furies) |
. | PA328PE1450.P47 | (Period Styles: A History of Punctuation, Cooper Union - duh) |
A | HX844.G615 | (Nowhere from Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman - exiled for anarchism - A symbol for anarchy) |
7 | Z1237.L93 | (Struggle for Empire: a bibliography of the French and Indian War, J. G. Lydon - FIW = 7 Year War - 1755-1763) |
3 | TK9023.F67 | (Meltdown, D. F. Ford - the book is entirely about 3 Mile Island incident) |
. | TK902HF5548.32.N48 | (The Dot-Com Debacle and the Return to Reason, L.E.V. Nevaer - duh) |
S | HD9585.S82.S53 | (World sulphur survey, W.F. Sheldrick - Sulphur, S) |
7 | BS1233.A78 | (Genesis: Translation and Commentary, Robert Alter - 7 days of creation) |
5 | PR2754.B4 | (The Complete Works of Shakespeare, David Bevington, ed. - iambic pentameter) |
This string of characters, taken in order, is the call number for another book, "Stimuli: Architecture, communication, publicité". The answer is STIMULI.