Gabriel Farrell's Editorial Introduction is a lot of fun:

  Before I go I feel I must implore you once more. Please, brave
  champion, press your steed onward into the long night. Follow
  your destiny down the mysterious passages in the labyrinths of
  books and code, then return to tell us all that you have seen and
  heard. We will dutifully journey from village to village
  spreading the tales of your heroic deeds.

  http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4892
  
Who says geeks can't be humanists too!  ++

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame