30th step: Wonders never cease

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[As the feed clicks on, your resident actually-from-the-19th-century guy is in the now operational cinema, stretched across one of the chairs in the back and staring at the screen. Staring. He is absolutely captivated by this new technological marvel.]

Is this - [He gestures toward the screen, ignoring the confused to irritated looks that fellow

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What do you have against movies?

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Is this what this is called? I've nothing against it. It's glorious.

[sauceytomato]

Yeah.

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Is this really such an old, familiar thing to all but me?

[sauceytomato]

Wouldn't know.

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All the people here seem in their element. [he gestures again toward the people around him, who are giving him weird and angry looks.]

[sauceytomato]

And you're not?

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Not hardly. I have never seen anything like this in my life.

[sauceytomato]

I haven't seen of or heard of a lot of things here before I arrived. It's...natural, I guess.

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A jaded view for one so young. I have seen more wondrous things in this last year than I have in thirty-seven summers.

[sauceytomato]

See? Same here.

[favorthebold]

It's something to celebrate, domeino.

[sauceytomato]

I guess.

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And I am certain. When such things no longer thrill a man, he may as well lie down and die.