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[higherfunctions]

[The writing is cramped and spiky, written with such force that the quill blotted on numerous viciously-poked full stops. Here be swirls and scribbles and various doodles; one seems to be some kind of splatter pattern, one is an abstract spiral, and the other is a frog. Well. No. Half a frog. ...Ew.]

Question: is there any sight more disgusting than

Comments

[vertulpen]

Don't you think it's a little useless to complain about what can't be helped?

[higherfunctions]

Let's see- catharsis; noun (plural, catharses). A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit.

No, I don't think it's useless.

[vertulpen]

Complaint: noun. Very irritating; synonym: students.

Try not eating in the dining hall.

[He takes his meals to the greenhouses anyway.]

[higherfunctions]

Mine was copied from a dictionary. I don't see a contest.

And I don't. It's just the closest for tea and newspapers. [And doesn't involve much movement. Hurray.]

[vertulpen]

Maybe mine was too.

[He's just messing with you.]

. . . if you don't even eat there . . .

[ugh, wow, you've reached his point of not caring anymore.]

[higherfunctions]

Have I exhausted you?

[Hurray!]

[vertulpen]

Hardly.