The Tempest. Eva has it pulled up on her media pad in case she can't find it in the gargantuan library. She pulls a few books out, curiously, and leafs through them before putting them back
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She says "welcome to the book club, where we'll beat our heads against words that are much too long and multisyllabic to be used in every day speech" or some variation to everyone who walks in.
"Ah but such is the welcome challenge, and thank you, it's good to be here," Celena greeted her cheerfully as she made her way in carefully and gracefully.
Eva sits down in one of the chairs, relaxing like a cat and tapping her finger on her media pad, and waits until everyone else is seated and quieted down. "Alright. Let's get the burning question out of the way: how many people here actually read the book?"
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The Doctor held up his hand. "I have."
He had seated himself without invitation in a chair a little off to Eva's left, tried to readjust it and scoot (you always had to get in a scoot at a proper book club, he felt; just one of those little things), and found that it wasn't much of the scooting sort. Put-out for a moment, the Doctor patted his rather ratty copy of The Tempest, which was so ratty that it looked like it could fall apart at any moment; hence why he would have been hesitant to take it out for too long in this sort of humidity.
Smiling benignly at Eva, the Doctor leaned back in his chair, one leg crossed over the other.
It would have been silly if the person who chose the book for that meeting hadn't actually read it.
"I have admired Shakespeare's work since it was available for me to read -" So, for about two years. "But I chose The Tempest for our first meeting because in a way, we are all presently in exile."
Though having no homes to return to at all is a bit different from being sent to a deserted island by your usurping family.
"In these times, revenge, also, is never far from my mind."
"Revenge," said Zouichi quietly, fingering the Omnicomm on which he'd downloaded his copy. "But as you said, our situation is different from that of the characters in the play. Prospero knew his enemies, and why they acted as they did."
He paused for a moment. "Ah-- I have read the play as well."
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He had seated himself without invitation in a chair a little off to Eva's left, tried to readjust it and scoot (you always had to get in a scoot at a proper book club, he felt; just one of those little things), and found that it wasn't much of the scooting sort. Put-out for a moment, the Doctor patted his rather ratty copy of The Tempest, which was so ratty that it looked like it could fall apart at any moment; hence why he would have been hesitant to take it out for too long in this sort of humidity.
Smiling benignly at Eva, the Doctor leaned back in his chair, one leg crossed over the other.
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It would have been silly if the person who chose the book for that meeting hadn't actually read it.
"I have admired Shakespeare's work since it was available for me to read -" So, for about two years. "But I chose The Tempest for our first meeting because in a way, we are all presently in exile."
Though having no homes to return to at all is a bit different from being sent to a deserted island by your usurping family.
"In these times, revenge, also, is never far from my mind."
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He paused for a moment. "Ah-- I have read the play as well."
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