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021. Hobbies

May 23, 2009 14:57

[audio // Japanese]

Momotaros, do you still want to spar? Meet me in the gym.

[audio // English]

Does anyone here have hobbies besides drinking, violence, and sex?

I'm wondering if the proclivities of the passengers are an artifact of the selection process that populates this place, or if it's just the boredom getting to everyone.

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notaninnocent May 23 2009, 20:26:13 UTC

I certainly do. I spend most of my time reading and embroidering.

electroniccrane May 23 2009, 20:29:15 UTC

What have you been reading lately?

[The Major is beyond uninterested in embroidery.]

notaninnocent May 23 2009, 20:34:51 UTC

[But Major, it's such a fulfulling hobby!]

Several of Mr Dickens's novels - I used to follow them in the literary magazines - and Jane Eyre, one of my favourites. Oh, and I also found several interesting novels about a doctor who travelled around in a blue police box, but they too confusing.

electroniccrane May 23 2009, 20:42:36 UTC

[You know what's fulfilling, Johanna? Having lots of guns and ample opportunity to use them.]

Dickens is certainly a way to keep occupied.

"Police box?" It looks like a phone booth, doesn't it? I think we have a television series something like that in my world.

[She's only dimly aware of the existence of Doctor Who. Which is of course still going strong in 2032.]

notaninnocent May 23 2009, 20:48:38 UTC

Television? I've never heard of such a thing. What is it?

electroniccrane May 23 2009, 20:57:36 UTC

Moving picture displays. A...theatrical performance recorded and replayed in a similar fashion to records on a...gramophone, I think is the word.

[The Major's a bit fuzzy on European history, or at least the parts that didn't involve wars. They had sound recording back when Dickens was being serialized, right?]

notaninnocent May 23 2009, 22:26:58 UTC

[They did indeed! Gold star for the Major.]

Oh, I see, I think. That's very useful indeed.

[And pause as she thinks something through...]

So, the devices in our rooms with the large screens... are they televisions? I haven't been able to get mine to work yet so I don't know.

electroniccrane May 23 2009, 22:35:44 UTC

Yes, that's a television.

Look for a button labeled "on/off" or "power." It should be larger than the others. Press it to turn the set on. You can adjust the volume with the buttons labeled as such.

There should also be a DVD player, which is smaller and flat, with a similar power button, and also one labeled "open" or "eject," which will open a tray so you can load the DVD. Those are discs about six inches in diameter, with the performances recorded on them. They're available in the library in narrow, rectangular boxes. They go shiny-side-down in the tray.

notaninnocent May 23 2009, 22:57:34 UTC

[Another pause as Johanna messes with the television a little.]

I see now! Thank you very much for explaining. I shall have to try watching one of these dee-vee-dees.

[And so Johanna is slowly introduced to the art of being a couch potato.]

electroniccrane May 23 2009, 22:59:48 UTC

You're welcome.

There should be multiple adaptions of A Christmas Carol available.

[Westerners love that one, for reasons she can't quite comprehend.]

notaninnocent May 23 2009, 23:15:32 UTC

A Christmas Carol? Really? How wonderful! I think I shall find that first, then.

[Guess who's a fan.]

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