Anti-OTP Post: Acheron/Hamlet (yea verily, we kiddeth thee not)

[hellflowsover]

*this is what former English professors who now lead professional lives of crime do in their spare time:

is sitting comfortably, alternating between reading several large, dusty, books, cross-referencing passages and making notes, all the while humming quietly*

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[thanitohercules]

*can we say this is in the DF library, perhaps some small dusty corner, some back room that by all rights should be rarely-frequented and often-empty? if we may, then here's a Prince of Denmark, who in his spare time is always reading, always brooding, sometimes reading to find the right words, sometimes reading to escape himself-- here's the Prince of Denmark, who has wandered here in search of some large book or other, something classic, something obscure, something in French or Latin-- but perhaps he merely looks and has no book in mind*

[hellflowsover]

*without looking up, slides a copy of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom across the table in the prince's direction*

[thanitohercules]

*picks it up rather innocently and flips through it, though it doesn't really take him long to get the gist of it* I-- what-- sir?

[hellflowsover]

*looks up* Mmm? Yes?