my maturity, let me show you it
So usually, unless I'm exceptionally bored and it's not a school night, I try not to read late at night in bed because it tends to keep me awake rather than help me fall asleep. This would be an issue when you usually only get 4 hours of sleep as it is. But! Staring at my DS screen DOES make me sleepy. And now I have finally found a temporary half-way point to this... reading books on the DS :D Why I never knew 100 Classic Book Collection existed until last week, I can't say. So this is all well and good and was working fine.
........HOLY SHIT SOMEONE IS PLAYING JURASSIC PARK THEME ON A HARMONICA SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE TJAKSGJKLAS;GNRJAK;;NA
...moving on. Let's start with the warning after the 'game' boots up: "These classic books of the past are presented in their original versions, and the texts may include words and expresions that could be considered inappropriate in a modern context." I can honestly say I never thought this would ever be necessary. Until I decided to reread The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a book I haven't touched literally since the first year I moved to the States, 1999. Maybe I didn't care when I was 12, but now... reading something like:
So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up...
...when Sherlock and Watson are sharing a room, of course this will reduce me to snickering at 3am. I can't even imagine what the new [obnoxious, for the record] girl next door thinks. The next line beginning with The pipe was still between his lips does not help matters. Then continuing with Holmes inviting him out for a morning ride. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. The man was up all night, Watson is woken up by a mysterious ejaculation, and Holmes knows where the stable-boy sleeps. WHAT WAS HE DOING? In my sleepy delirium I think I must have been laughing for a good few minutes.
Also, this is not funny, but there is a Major Prendergast, and someone named Aloysius in this book. Coincidence much?
........HOLY SHIT SOMEONE IS PLAYING JURASSIC PARK THEME ON A HARMONICA SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE TJAKSGJKLAS;GNRJAK;;NA
...moving on. Let's start with the warning after the 'game' boots up: "These classic books of the past are presented in their original versions, and the texts may include words and expresions that could be considered inappropriate in a modern context." I can honestly say I never thought this would ever be necessary. Until I decided to reread The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a book I haven't touched literally since the first year I moved to the States, 1999. Maybe I didn't care when I was 12, but now... reading something like:
So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up...
...when Sherlock and Watson are sharing a room, of course this will reduce me to snickering at 3am. I can't even imagine what the new [obnoxious, for the record] girl next door thinks. The next line beginning with The pipe was still between his lips does not help matters. Then continuing with Holmes inviting him out for a morning ride. "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. The man was up all night, Watson is woken up by a mysterious ejaculation, and Holmes knows where the stable-boy sleeps. WHAT WAS HE DOING? In my sleepy delirium I think I must have been laughing for a good few minutes.
Also, this is not funny, but there is a Major Prendergast, and someone named Aloysius in this book. Coincidence much?