It sucks that I don't have my laptop...Then I wouldn't feel so bad about doing this. The library is supposed to be for studying, and doing homework. And reading.
Then again, the guy next to me is reading fanfiction. So I guess this isn't THAT bad, since I'm trying to write a story...
Key word: TRYING.
Oo! Perhaps the protagonist is a writer? And he's looking for a setting for his book. And he realizes that he can't think of one that isn't in the present or future, because he doesn't know the past. So he seeks to find out about the past, and realizes that no one else knows it either!