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The Tropical Island Conundrum

Oct 08, 2011 23:56

The test of a true leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause of their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so. His friends couldn't even endure their own petty squabbling about their fornication habits, which of course was their own shortcoming, but Sheldon could not help but find some truth ( Read more... )

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polly_okeefe October 9 2011, 04:01:32 UTC

I found the man sitting perfectly still in the kitchen -- drawing in, in fact, from the armrests of the chair. Er... Yikes. The time I'd come here had been bad, but compared to him, I'd handled it as if I'd stepped off the subway at Penn Station.

"Um... excuse me," I said, cautiously. "But can I help?"

has_no_peers October 9 2011, 04:28:48 UTC

"Oh I very much doubt that," said Sheldon. His hands were resting on his thighs, knees tucked together with his messenger bag on the table in front of him. It seemed marginally cleaner than the floor. Marginally.

polly_okeefe October 9 2011, 12:47:49 UTC

Okay. Let's try another tack.

"So... what are you doing in fortress chair?"

has_no_peers October 10 2011, 03:26:14 UTC

Sheldon looked blankly at her. "I can't even parse that sentence."

polly_okeefe October 10 2011, 03:48:24 UTC

I'm afraid I gaped at him a little. I mean, why would such a simple sentence need to be parsed?

Okay, tack number three.

"I mean to ask," I said, straightening up, "why are you sitting there as though the floor was electric and there was an invisible forcefield around you that you could not touch on pain of death?"

has_no_peers October 10 2011, 14:44:06 UTC

Sheldon decided that he was too weary for either grammar lessons about the proper use of articles nor the accurate definition of fortress. Perhaps English wasn't her first language. Or perhaps she too had the misfortune to be from Texas.

"Well that's just silly," he said instead, and waved a hand out to his side. "I wouldn't expect that sort of technology here, not when I've been informed that - " He suddenly looked pained. "There isn't even network capability."

polly_okeefe October 10 2011, 14:52:40 UTC

Hmm. There was that mention of that network which I assumed was the Internet that people from my future always talked about. How addicted were we to that? But I gave him a sympathetic smile. "No. I'm sorry. There's no connection with the outside world. I know a few people with computers and they complain about that a lot."

But he hadn't answered my question. Then again, if he wasn't interested, who was I to pry? Just be friendly.

"Would you like anything? We have coffee, or I could make a tea."

has_no_peers October 12 2011, 17:01:29 UTC

Hot beverages in a time of distress was, of course, a non-optional social convention. So Sheldon nodded.

He didn't trust her to get his coffee right, so he said, "Tea. Please."

polly_okeefe October 12 2011, 17:03:54 UTC

"Any particular kind?" I went over to the cabinet and rifled through the boxes. "We have mint. There may be some Earl Grey, or even Oolong."

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