The librarian was, ex officio, a member of the college council. No one had been able to find any rule about… — Terry Pratchett
The librarian was, ex officio, a member of the college council. No one had been able to find any rule about orang-utans being barred, although they had surreptitiously looked very hard for one. (p. 9)
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