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Now, Josh is great company, but he has a habit of attaining Nirvana during his quiet moments and then attempting to carry on a conversation while freed of his mortal flesh, and Biff will NEVER get used to talking to a disembodied voice, however much he loves his buddy.
So while Josh is floating around and enjoying his emancipation from worldly concerns, Biff is picking up a shift of guard duty, sitting on the wall with a few knives tucked into his belt, staring over the gray and boring expanse of the dead city.
What? you might say. No dirty songs in Aramaic? No excellent dirges? Is Biff going introspective on us?
As a matter of fact, he is. Biff's been doing a lot of thinking lately. Mostly about Maggie, whose absence is like being repeatedly stabbed by a dull knife in terms of pain. Nobody here smells as good as her.
But on the other hand, Josh is here. And while Biff used to take the feeling that Josh invokes just by standing in the same room as someone, 2000 years away from His presence has made it so that Biff never will again. Which is why he doesn't take guard duty all that much anymore. People keep dying here. And Biff isn't interested in seeing whether his next afterlife is going to be any different than his last. Not yet.
So while Josh is floating around and enjoying his emancipation from worldly concerns, Biff is picking up a shift of guard duty, sitting on the wall with a few knives tucked into his belt, staring over the gray and boring expanse of the dead city.
What? you might say. No dirty songs in Aramaic? No excellent dirges? Is Biff going introspective on us?
As a matter of fact, he is. Biff's been doing a lot of thinking lately. Mostly about Maggie, whose absence is like being repeatedly stabbed by a dull knife in terms of pain. Nobody here smells as good as her.
But on the other hand, Josh is here. And while Biff used to take the feeling that Josh invokes just by standing in the same room as someone, 2000 years away from His presence has made it so that Biff never will again. Which is why he doesn't take guard duty all that much anymore. People keep dying here. And Biff isn't interested in seeing whether his next afterlife is going to be any different than his last. Not yet.