ALT Title: Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book) 4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book) 15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book) 11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book) 48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave (A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

ALT Title: Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute Image: A series of science-related items (glassware, robots, fires, scientists) with smiley faces labelled this: fire_small.jpg graph_error.jpg cracked_glassware.jpg sad_at_desk.jpg fire_medium.jpg broken_robot.jpg disproved_theory.jpg fire_huge.jpg sad_on_floor toxic_cloud.jpg rejected_paper.jpg

ALT 1. The entomology department notice board a sign reads “Employee of the moth: Claire” (Claire is spelled with an i) 2. Clare and a colleague are scientists wearing lab coats, they look at the board. He says “Congrats, But I think they made a typo.” “Damn, do they did.” Says Clare 3. Clare in the office, seen from outside “Sorry to bother you boss, but my name is spelled wrong on the poster” 4. Her boss is a human-sized moth in a lab coat sitting behind a desk “Apologies Clare, I’ll get that fixed.” (Clare is spelled either no i)

ALT Panel 1 Image: a man sits on a sunlonger reading a book Caption: His body may be lounging contentedly by the pool of a Sicilian villa in the warmth of the afternoon sun... Panel 2 Caption 1: But, as on every holiday, the military history dad's mind is far away... Image: close up of the man who is reading Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor Caption: On some blasted steppe, amongst brave, doomed comrades on yet another gruelling campaign. Panel 3 Caption: Awestruck by the dreadful power of mechanised warfare, he is lost to all but the most urgent missives. Image:The sun has sunk a little in the sky. "Would you like another Aperol, darling?" his wife calls from the villa. He replies "Yes please!"

ALT Image: In a childrens library, a small boy contentedly reads a small picture book, while an angry-looking small girl storms past, carrying a very heavy book. Caption: Unfortunately for Charlotte, the adjudication committee decides that, for the purposes of the under-nines summer reading challenge, the six volumes of proust's 'in search of lost time' is considered to be one single narrative, whereas each of Roger hargreaves' mister men' books is a distinct work, thereby awarding the library's 'top reader' sticker to her brother Toby.

ALT Panel one: a climber reaches the top of a towering cliff. There, among the clouds, a serene figure with a long beard, wearing a robe, sits crosslegged on the bare rock. He is "The Great Wise One of the Mountain" Panels two, three and four: sitting serenely crosslegged on successively lower clifftops we see the Assistant Wise One of the Mountain, The Post-Doc Research Fellow of the Mountain and a group of PhD Students of the Mountain

ALT Two stick figures walk beside a lake, one asks "Do you ever worry that we are living in the reflection rather than the reality?" They are reflected, upside-down, in the lake. The reflection of the second figure replies with an upside-down speech bubble reading "Sometimes".

ALT A wobbly drawing in a notebook showing a building with commas, periods, asterisks etc blowing out of the window. "Window left open at punctuation factory" is written above.

ALT Panel 1 Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside. Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out Panel 2 Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis. Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says This, is “very odd” The other replies …(Indeed)* Panel 3 Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication. Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says Qu’ack? Panel 4 Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points Something must be done!! ! Close the windows! !! Install air conditioning! !! Immediately!!! !

ALT Panel 1 Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside. Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out Panel 2 Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis. Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says This, is “very odd” The other replies …(Indeed)* Panel 3 Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication. Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says Qu’ack? Panel 4 Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points Something must be done!! ! Close the windows! !! Install air conditioning! !! Immediately!!! !

ALT A publisher's office. The editor explains "Your draft has all the elements of a masterpiece, they're just not in the right order" The writer looks at her draft on the table and asks "Elements?" The editor clarifies, sadly "Letters".