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[whattheytellyou]

[Several hours after watching The Lost World with Martha.

The video switches on to show a desk covered with notes, balled up paper, a few DVDs, and a thick, hard-cover novel. Sarah sits down in front of the camera, looking absolutely livid, and brings her hand to her mouth. She pulls it away after a moment and gestures in a half shrug, inhaling as

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[gingerspeedster]

I loved that Jurassic Park movie.

[ He stopped paying attention almost immediately to anything that didn't involve epic dinosaur fighting. Sorry. ]

[whattheytellyou]

Great.

[gingerspeedster]

I don't get why everyone takes this movie thing so seriously. I mean really, I was too focused on the kickass dinosaur effects to remember whatever a character based off of you did.

[whattheytellyou]

I wasn't in Jurassic Park. No one in Jurassic Park was based on me.

[young_idealist]

I never realized... You knew Dr. Malcolm?

And I would tend to agree that he was a very ethical man. A little abrasive, but I find that happens often with highly intelligent people. It sometimes makes me grateful I am not one of them.

[whattheytellyou]

Dr. Malcolm and I are very good friends - and he can be a little abras-

[Waaaaait.]

...Was he here?

[young_idealist]

For a little while...

[whattheytellyou]

I see.

private

[whattheytellyou]

Sure.

private

[whattheytellyou]

Curiosity.

[Well.]

I wanted to see if it showed an incident that casts me in a very questionable light; it didn't, but then again, I'm torn. Do I want to look like a murderer or an unethical, bumbling twit who might have slept her way up the professional ladder?

[rass_bestie]

Why on Earth would you…? [Do that to yourself?]

With regards to the girl, Hollywood was almost certainly of the impression that such an incident didn't happen apart from in a work of fiction.

[whattheytellyou]

I can see that.

Still, it's the sort of thing that could make me a laughingstock if one of my colleagues were to show up here. If it got back to colleagues back home...it could be bad.

[rass_bestie]

Given the number of people represented here who have fictions about them here, they'd quickly learn to take these matters with a pinch of salt. And it's hardly going to end up in your home universe unless you or that colleague brings it. Finally, looking over what you've said, you bare little resemblence to that who's shown making it that much harder to make the leap that movie character equals you.

[whattheytellyou]

My concern is that a colleague will bring it up. Ian, for starters - Armand says he's been here.

[mrs_persson]

...bloody hell, Sarah.

[whattheytellyou]

This is something else, let me tell you.

[mrs_persson]

I can only imagine. I've got books about me-you can find them in the library, in fact. But they're based on my own memoirs, and there certainly hasn't been a film, let alone one as depressingly inaccurate.

[whattheytellyou]

How do you feel about the books? I mean, it's almost as unnerving to me to see everything written in total accuracy as it is to see everything skewed.