♐ 007 // [Voice]

[crisis_rain]

[As it's raining today, the old man has decided to do what he usually does, get drunk out of boredom. But it has been a while since he's used the journal for anything other than people watching, so he figured he should probably contribute to that mess that we call social interaction. He's been trying to figure out what he was doing the last time he

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[Voice]

[bookworldly]

The library is always open.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

Ya know, I never thought of readin' books. I'm not really a bookworm, but if ya've got some recommendations I'll give 'em a shot.

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[bookworldly]

[And this is exactly why she's been trying to figure out the library's cataloging system.]

Alright, but I'll need a little information. Likes, dislikes, interests - that sort of thing.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

Hard ta say when ya barely read. I'm used ta more of the non-fiction types, like recorded events. But I wouldn't mind reading about some fictional wars, or things about spies! Ya know, the more morally darker stuff that isn't horror.

[Voice]

[bookworldly]

[Thursday nods. She responds almost immediately]

Well if you have a lot of time on your hands you couldn't do much better than Milton's Epic "Paradise Lost". Some people would call it fiction - others'll tell you that it's based on true events. It's dark - it's setting moves from Heaven, to Hell, to Eden. Also, the whole story is one great war with Satan cast as the ultimate spy in enemy territory.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

[That's not what he was expecting to here at all. It takes him off guard for a moment.]

That sounds, pretty deep. A war between heaven and hell? I was thinkin' more of war records, though I may have ta give it a read if it's good enough to merit the "ya can't do much better".

[Voice]

[bookworldly]

I was also going to suggest Homer's epics. For a long time the Greeks - heck, the whole world - thought that they were a written record of the actual events of the Trojan war. The ancients took these to be their histories.

[Pause...]

Recent advances in Archeology have revealed contradictions with Homer, of course, but there's bound to be some measure of truth to them. And anyway, you'll be surprised how often stories turn out to be more accurate than the facts.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

Greeks, Trojan war, Homer... what world are these books from, if ya don't mind me askin'? I can't say I've heard any of those before. Whether they're fact or fiction, it's nice ta know their origins.

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[bookworldly]

[This again. What discourse is there for the discussion of worlds?]

I don't know if I can answer that, but the planet I'm from is called Earth. Does that help?

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

Ah! Another one from Earth! Gotta admit that all the people I've spoken too today have talked about great books from that world. Sounds like there's some real literacy greats I'm gonna have ta read sometime.

[Voice]

[bookworldly]

[It's hard to keep the pride out of her voice.]

You'll never be bored again.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

[He can't help but laugh.]

I take it there's no bias in that statement, huh?

[Voice]

[bookworldly]

Not a syllable. [But she's laughing too, probably because his mirth is so damned infectious.]

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

[I didn't notice that HTML fail ;-; /fistshakes LJ]

Nothin' wrong with being proud of yer world. Just make sure ta bring me back to that wonderful place with ya, ok?

[Voice]

[bookworldly]

The books are in the library, you can go there yourself. In a manner of speaking. If you still want to go there after that then I'll think about taking you along.

[Voice]

[crisis_rain]

Earth has cars and airplanes, right? Oh, oh! Does the library have books on those?!