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[two_natures]

The problem with the lab - one of them, anyway - is that it's often times extremely constricting. And as much as Hank sometimes wishes that he didn't have to take breaks, that he could devote most of his waking hours to research, he has to admit that staring at calculations for hours on end can lead to his becoming sloppy. Numbers get transposed,

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[with_diamonds]

Given the number of people usually in and around the rec room, it takes Lucy a second to realize she's the one being spoken to, though it isn't any longer than that. It isn't like she's anything close to oblivious, just slightly distracted, meaning to look for something to read herself with a free afternoon on her hands. Glancing at the title of the book, she nods, then smiles as she looks up to the person holding it. His face is a vaguely familiar one, she thinks, if not enough to place; after a while, the same could be said of just about everyone here, anyway.

"Yeah, I liked it," she says lightly, glad that it's at least something familiar. "Haven't read it in kind of a long time, but it's good. Heavy, but well-written."

[two_natures]

Hank turns the book over in his hands, looking at the cover again, and then at the reviews on the back of the dust jacket. It's obviously a reprint, printed long after 1962, even if the work itself was first released in that year.

"Thanks, I think I'll give it a shot," he replies, "I think this came out the same year I left home; I never got around to reading it."

He doesn't get into the multiverse theory behind the fact that it may not have been released during 1962 when he comes from.

[with_diamonds]

"Yeah?" Lucy asks, voice lilting with obvious interest, head tipping to the side. It's a silly little thing to pick up on, but she's spent so much time feeling out of place for the fact that she comes from so many people's pasts (though there are plenty too who come from earlier) that she can't not seize upon that bit of offered information. "It came out just a few years before I did. Showed up here, I mean."

[two_natures]

Most of the people Hank has become acquainted with on the island are from times technically in Hank's future; he's noticed that a great deal of them are from sometime around the turn of the century, actually.

"Really?" he asks, attempting to hide his excitement over the fact, "What year? That still seems so strange to ask."