010 ▌Untentional Recording [video]

[am_i_being_rude]

[The feed kicks in; the inside of the TARDIS console room by the doorway where Amy, Rory, and the Doctor are standing looking over and down at the tower structure the TARDIS is hovering near. Abruptly: ]

I'm going for one, grab my legs!

No, no, no, Amy!

That's a very bad idea!

[Without waiting to see if they will - and they do, obviously, though

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[bitesvampires]

Do you really think that's going to help?

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[waitedforyears]

Who'd want to be bored.

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[bitesvampires]

One who wishes to avoid suffering, if Madame de Staël's to be believed.

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[waitedforyears]

She must be wrong. Whoever she is.

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[bitesvampires]

She was an author, and claimed that in life, one must choose between boredom and suffering.

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[waitedforyears]

And how did she not realise that boredom is suffering?

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[bitesvampires]

Because one who longs for boredom isn't suffering, are they? They have what they desire. One who wishes for something else, excitement, is suffering for the fact that they don't have it, and that they haven't chosen boredom.

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[waitedforyears]

I don't see how boring's ever not terrible. You're bored.

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[bitesvampires]

You're making assumptions -- and I didn't claim to be satisfied with it, either.

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[waitedforyears]

Yeah. I'm assuming she's wrong.

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[bitesvampires]

More commonly known as 'forming an opinion'.

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[waitedforyears]

Nothing wrong with that.

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[bitesvampires]

I didn't say there was.

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[waitedforyears]

So what's high up on your list of pleasures? [ Yes, she's back to the grinning. ]

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[bitesvampires]

Are you familiar with libertines, Amy?

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[waitedforyears]

Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll?