☂ 017; i just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit

[is_an_island]

[ England had been remarkably capable of handling himself quite well for the past week or so. Certainly he sulked by hiding under his blankets, but he did that with pride. Or at least a respectable-looking blanket. But on the 21st day at the fourteenth hour at thirty-three seconds, as he realised he had written nothing but the word SOCKS1 for the

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[decadenzas]

[...what] Stop broadcasting your brain-addled moments.

[is_an_island]

I'm not brain-addled, I'm just being polite about this whole thing. Honestly.

[decadenzas]

Polite about what whole thing? Most of what you said didn't even make sense, outside of you being ill.

[is_an_island]

I said I wasn't ill. Just a bit under the weather. Aching joints. Don't feel like walking about town. That's all.

[decadenzas]

Ah, just your age showing then?

[is_an_island]

Don't act so arrogant about it, you prat. It's not age, it's just the weather. It's been horrid lately. Sunny, blue skies, all that rot.

[decadenzas]

I see, I'd forgotten that good summer weather puts old men in horrid moods. It must be a dreadful time of year for you.

[is_an_island]

Stop calling me an old man.

And it's not good weather. It's too bright. Much too blue.

[decadenzas]

It isn't as though you'll have to put up with the weather if you continue to isolate yourself, at any rate.

[is_an_island]

There's nothing wrong with a little splendid isolation.

Besides, I said anybody could come over in a pinch, so that's all good and well.

[decadenzas]

I'm sure you'd find some reason to turn people away from your doorstep anyway since you're obviously in one of your moods. But old people can't stay isolated or indoors for long. You'll start to mold.

[is_an_island]

Don't be silly. I move around.

Sometimes I even go to the kitchen.

[decadenzas]

...That's about the last place you need to be.

[is_an_island]

I tried to make some cookies.

... I think I forgot about them.

[decadenzas]

Did you leave them in the oven? ...Is the oven still on?

[is_an_island]

No, of course not.

Maybe.