The end of Se7en clearly takes place in an area where there is a desert with hills in the background. The credits state that it was Mojave,CA, so “The City” had to be Los Angeles.
I’m gonna ask both of you not to leave town until my investigation is over.
Untrue. Librarians use the title used on the case. As both “Seven” and “Se7en” have been used on the film’s case, both titles are used in cataloging:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/se7en/oclc/55089980/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true
Because the two searches you describe have nothing to do with each other. I suppose it would be possible for a library to keep a database of every book that every patron had ever checked out and to make this database searchable by the subject headings of the books, but no library where I’ve ever worked did this, I’ve never heard of a library that did, and I can’t think of any good reason why any library would even want to.
It’s a pet peeve, really, but…errors in naming conventions. For ships, mostly, sometimes other vehicles.
Y’see, a number of vessels in the real world follow, at least halfway closely, actual set naming conventions. Space Shuttle Orbiters after exploratory vessels, US ballistic missile submarines after US States, etc. Like I said, there are exceptions, but often ones that can be at least rationalized, or at least obviously high-profile enough to make sense. I mean, you probably wouldn’t have an HMS Trafalgar, HMS Jutland, and HMS *Pablo Neruda * built in the same class of ships, or possibly even the same navy, in a serious work of fiction.
It’s especially grating when there are actual prexisting official lists of candidate names that were runners up to existing vessel names. I’ve seen fictional space shuttles named Gettysburg and Camelot—but no Chatham, Resolution, Trieste, or Endurance. Hell, not even Calypso or Hokule’a.
'Nother example I can think of was an NCIS episode featuring the American nuclear carrier Seahawk. Well, unless that was named after President Seahawk, Admiral Seahawk, or possibly Congressman or Senator Seahawk, I’m not seeing it happening. :dubious:
So, yeah, fellow writers…just remember that there sometimes actually is a rationale behind what a ship gets named, beyond “it sounds pretty.” :smack:
I can’t lay my hands on a copy of the AACR2R at the moment, but I’ve found several sources which quote it as saying that
In other words, it a poor job of cataloging was done by the person who decided to catalog the film based on what the case said, because that’s not the top-preferred source. It’s like taking the title of a book from its cover instead of the title page and t.p. verso, like you’re supposed to.
N.b., RDA may say something different, I really haven’t bothered trying to understand it.
They still say “over and out” on the radio, right?
That’s one thing I like about the Honor Harrington books: If you see a heavy cruiser named “Scimitar”, then it’s a pretty safe bet that that navy will also have heavy cruisers named “Rapier”, “Claymore”, and “Gladius”, and certainly if ships by those names exist, they’ll all be heavy cruisers. Likewise for ships named after great historical admirals, or ships named after dangerous predatory animals, and so on.
It is fun to play the naming game within those conventions. After the real HMS Trafalgar, I made up the HMS Tobruk, and after the real USS Tarawa, I made up the USS Tinian. At least I’ve got some verisimilitude. (I also ran my chapter past an actual USN officer…who spotted any number of blunders!)
Notice the camera cuts as he takes the cube and puts it back. The whole thing just seemed weird the second time I watched it.
…though I must say this was done hilariously in Four Weddings and a Funeral [and, for that matter, Soul Man]
–G!
It’s probably because I grew up in New York, but the only time I’ve seen something like this was in a school library.
There was a system kind of like this at the public library ( even in the 70s)- except the machine didn’t stamp a number, it took a photo of the library card and the book card together. And when the book wasn’t returned on time, they mailed you a copy of the photo. The photos were ordered by checkout date/due date, not the book or cardholder. So you couldn’t look up all the books I checked out, or all the people who checked out a particular book. But you could get a list of books checked out on May 17 1978
How do you alphabetize “Se7en”?
Spaceship control rooms (flight deck? whatever it’s called) that, when taking enemy fire, start sparking and smoking like crazy, yet the electronics all continue functioning.
In a similar vein, the “rerouting” of electrics, hydraulics or anything else in conduit that typically would only be installed with one route.
And shields, I don’t claim to understand the technology but somehow even when shields are up enemy fire results in some physical bumping around inside the ship.
You use “Seven,” like any normal right-thinking person.
Actually it comes right in between Se6en and Se8en.
Especially when the inertia dampeners are off-line. 
Sorry, but the biggest plot hole in Seven/Se7en is Brad Pitt’s motivation - he is from a small town and wants to live in “the City”, but “the City” is a fucking hellhole. Why would anybody want to live there? 
And in the Land of the Free according to certain genres, 1/4 of the adult population got at least two PhDs before the age where one would be expected to graduate HS; 1/4 are career petty criminals (the head honchos are all imported); 1/4 work in law enforcement. I assume the other quarter is the wives of the petty criminals.
I’ll tell you, the_diego, but you really should end each transmission with the word “over.” Over!