Pressed Between the Pages of a Book
[Reinette is walking, her appearance a notable change to her most recent visit. Some might suggest she is actually two different women. Her color is high, and dressed for the day she is talking -- a book in one hand and a parasol in the other. Calm and relaxed, her steps suggest an easy confidence. She is also obviously most taken with her book, and pleased with its contents.
---until she actually stops reading, looks up, and takes full and complete note of her surroundings]
No.
[The vocal equivalent of stomping her foot?]
This is absolutely unacceptable. First the skies. Then, of course, time itself. Louis was distraught. He thought I had left him in truth and -- it is one thing for the Doctor to appear throughout my life at his leisure. It is not right for me to do the same. It seems to me it is best that I actually be present to get about the business of living it.
[A first edition of the very first volume of Diderot and D’Alambert's Encyclopaedia is tossed from her hand, and skitters out of sight, disappearing fully from the plane]
What is happening? And what is being done about it?
---until she actually stops reading, looks up, and takes full and complete note of her surroundings]
No.
[The vocal equivalent of stomping her foot?]
This is absolutely unacceptable. First the skies. Then, of course, time itself. Louis was distraught. He thought I had left him in truth and -- it is one thing for the Doctor to appear throughout my life at his leisure. It is not right for me to do the same. It seems to me it is best that I actually be present to get about the business of living it.
[A first edition of the very first volume of Diderot and D’Alambert's Encyclopaedia is tossed from her hand, and skitters out of sight, disappearing fully from the plane]
What is happening? And what is being done about it?