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[happinessboys]

[The camera's turned on, but there's no much happening yet. Just a shot of the sky over the deck. Beatty sighs a bit off screen and then there's a soft sound, like a thud. Faint trickling of liquid and then the flick of a lighter. The camera still hasn't moved. It's not until the unmistakable sound of fire really starts to get going that his hand

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[19centconstable]

Because...I come from a family of rather meager means, and I was given all the education they were able to give, but there's a sort of idea that literature, and theater, and art aren't for people like me: that they'd have no use in my life and are only for, well, rich ponces. And so I didn't really think about those things, and I became a police constable, because I'm a bit of an adventure seeker. But I always found myself wondering about things; how they worked or why they were, and I wanted something...more. Then I met Detective Murdoch, who is of the most amazing mind, and knows, I suspect, everything. And he encouraged me to keep wondering about those things I wondered about, even if the wonderings seemed daft, because sometimes it turns out that that thing you'd least expect is the correct answer. And I began to read things related to our cases, and it seemed a whole world opened up, that had been there the whole time, but which I simply hadn't seen, and I could be a part of it. It wasn't nonsense or frivolous, because the things people write about, even if they use strange language, are at heart the very basic hopes and dreams and fears an emotions we all have. Underneath all of the thou's and such.

And I think it's a sad thing to burn a book. It's something someone worked very hard on, and which was important to them.

[happinessboys]

Fascinating. You inquisitive types are always the first to fall, I'm afraid.

[19centconstable]

Fall?

[happinessboys]

Yes. Fall. Turn themselves in or be turned in as madmen.

[19centconstable]

That hasn't been my experience.