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[i_excel]

Y'know you have to take a long, hard look at your life and afterlife when you come to the realization that the most prominent activity you've been using to break the monotony is hours upon hours of paperwork. Not that it's something that could be too easily changed back home -- obligations being the pain in the ass that they are, and a certain need

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[pleasesmirk]

Order is always worth whatever it takes to enforce.

[pleasesmirk]

I'd rather not be part of any experiment.

[i_excel]

And avoiding everything you'd "rather not" do has gotten you out of here already, has it?

[pleasesmirk]

No, but that's no proof that this would help.

[i_excel]

And that's not proof that it wouldn't.

But while we're on the subject, what is it that you do with your spare time, then?

[pleasesmirk]

No, but I would rather not smoke - does that mean I should try it because it might help me get out of here? No.

Occasionally read, play chess, that sort of thing.

[i_excel]

Wow, that's really the best analogy you could come up with?

So what do you read?

[pleasesmirk]

It was the first one that came to mind, not necessarily the best.

Mainly books on criminology.

[i_excel]

Well geez, no wonder you don't have a sense of humor.

[pleasesmirk]

Should I apologise?

[i_excel]

No, but you should try some new genres.

[pleasesmirk]

I don't particularly enjoy fiction.

[i_excel]

Considering the way people come and go here, it could be argued that there's no such thing as fiction.

[pleasesmirk]

Could be, but I would disagree. Some things are not written with the intent to be factual - thus making them fiction. It is the intent which counts.

[i_excel]

So you read on criminology, which deals, like most studies, in theory as well as fact. Theories aren't absolute; they're speculative. So they're not written with the intent to be factual.

[pleasesmirk]

Some theories are more applicable and workable than others - some have far more proof behind them than others.