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wilderlogs2018-06-01 05:34 pm
therevanchist) wrote in wilderlogs2018-06-01 05:34 pm
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[OPEN] A Tale Told By an Idiot
Who: Revan and Whoever
What: Misled by the badass title, Revan attempts to read The Sound and the Fury
Where: Philly library
When: Towards the end of the Philly stay
Warnings/Notes: The Sound and the Fury is basically a nonstop parade of awful, so if you want, we can just stick to Revan not knowing what golf is or whatever to avoid dealing with early/mid-20th century race and gender issues and horrid people being horrid to each other.
[Anyone less stubborn would have given up days ago. Revan, on the other hand, is seated at a table in the reference section, surrounded by books pulled from all over the library, none of which seem to have any relationship to each other. A copy of the Concise Oxford, still large enough to brain livestock. A single-volume history of Germany and another one about the state of Mississippi. The official rules of golf. A biography of Thomas Jefferson and a history of Cambridge, England, both pushed off to one side. Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century, published of course by Harvard University Press. Several slim books about Easter, all obviously for children. And so forth.
Directly in front of her, stuffed full of flimsy paper bookmarks printed with the library's hours pilfered from the circulation desk, lies the cause of all the trouble: an unassuming paperback copy of The Sound and the Fury, with all the terrible stock photo cover design a cheap reprint of a classic entails. Revan herself is scribbling something in a spiral-bound notebook with a ballpoint, her surprise at the sheer amount of paper in the city long subsumed by irritation over this maddeningly incomprehensible book she's found.]
Why does it even matter?
What: Misled by the badass title, Revan attempts to read The Sound and the Fury
Where: Philly library
When: Towards the end of the Philly stay
Warnings/Notes: The Sound and the Fury is basically a nonstop parade of awful, so if you want, we can just stick to Revan not knowing what golf is or whatever to avoid dealing with early/mid-20th century race and gender issues and horrid people being horrid to each other.
[Anyone less stubborn would have given up days ago. Revan, on the other hand, is seated at a table in the reference section, surrounded by books pulled from all over the library, none of which seem to have any relationship to each other. A copy of the Concise Oxford, still large enough to brain livestock. A single-volume history of Germany and another one about the state of Mississippi. The official rules of golf. A biography of Thomas Jefferson and a history of Cambridge, England, both pushed off to one side. Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century, published of course by Harvard University Press. Several slim books about Easter, all obviously for children. And so forth.
Directly in front of her, stuffed full of flimsy paper bookmarks printed with the library's hours pilfered from the circulation desk, lies the cause of all the trouble: an unassuming paperback copy of The Sound and the Fury, with all the terrible stock photo cover design a cheap reprint of a classic entails. Revan herself is scribbling something in a spiral-bound notebook with a ballpoint, her surprise at the sheer amount of paper in the city long subsumed by irritation over this maddeningly incomprehensible book she's found.]
Why does it even matter?
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[ The voice carries over the stacks and then Alacruun pokes his horned head out from behind one of the shelves. He's mostly taking notes himself, but so far there's been woefully little on actual magic or anything remotely useful. It's all histories and stories of the sort that might be useful to an academic, but not to someone who is trying to research how best to annihilate someone with a gesture.
Pity. ]
Life? Our being here? The universe?
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Marriage! They're not nobility, so who cares?
[Illegitimacy is not a concept Revan understands outside claims to thrones.]
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[ Alacruun's eyebrows shoot up just slightly. Marriage. He's never much understood it either, to be honest. Humans seemed to have a thing for it (and quite a few of the other short-lived species too, for that matter). ]
I've never particularly cared about it one way or the other. Humans do seem to consider it important, though. So...
[ He shrugs. Can't help you, Revan. ]
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[Revan mutters to no one.]
You'd think a book called The Sound and the Fury would have something happening in it.
[That's louder, inviting Alacruun to commiserate over her bad reading choices. If she has to suffer, so does he, because he's there.
Ignore, please, the fact that her suffering is entirely self-inflicted.]
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[ Alacruun drifts over at a stately pace, a collection of books tucked under his arm. At least he's finding some items that might be worth reading. And he can distract himself with this conversation. ]
Are you going to try and finish it out of spite?
[ He sounds amused by the idea. ]
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[But it was out of spite, yes. Stream of consciousness is quick to read if you're barely absorbing any of it.]
That doesn't mean any of it made sense.
[Hence the table covered in books as she haphazardly tries to teach herself about the early 20th century American South without knowing that's what she's trying to do.]
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[ Alacruun snorts. He leans over the table to get a better look at her reading material. It looks... well, not interesting, but at least worthwhile. Maybe especially compared to the book she's complaining about. ]
What is it actually about? This particular geographic region?
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It mostly takes place somewhere called "Mississippi."
[Since it's pronounced the way it's spelled, Revan gets it right.]
Not everyone in Mississippi is terrible, only most of them.
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[ There are many ways to be awful. Alacruun is one of them.
But at least he's not boring. ]
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[Good call, guy whose species she doesn't recognize.]
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[ Why do people write about small-minded idiots? Mysteries. ]
People with no sense of scale or ambition or a will to do anything but dominate their tiny little corner of the universe. Sad, in a way, but ultimately pathetic.
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[She flicks the book with a finger, a telekinetic shove actually making the gesture effective, and the novel slides across the table to fetch up against the Concise Oxford.]
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[ He shrugs. ]
I'm... typically more interested in non-fiction.
[ He settles a hand on the table, as if inviting himself to linger. ]
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[Revan gestures to the table with a snort. Technically everything she's gathered is non-fiction, even the ones about rabbits.]
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[ He peruses the selection for a moment. ]
-ah, my manners. Have we been introduced?
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[Revan's reasonably sure she'd remember the guy with horns. There are so many species represented here that she doesn't even recognize.]
I'm Revan.
[Hand shaking isn't really a Jedi thing, and she bows slightly without rising from her chair, passing the Charisma check to make it look gracious instead of a little silly.]
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[ He sketches his own bow and then settles into a chair and leans over the collection of books, a glint in his eye. ]
I've no idea if any of this will be useful, but at least it might be interesting.
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[Revan gestures, and the history of Germany, just out of reach, slides across the table to Alacruun.]
Though I never did figure out why it was bad to be seen with a German.
[She didn't make it much past the Holy Roman Empire.]
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[ He arches a brow and leans over to pick up the book. ]
Maybe they're like orcs. Uncouth or something... Ravaging hordes.
[ That's a little unfair, but. ]
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It's a nationality.
[She understands that primitive societies sometimes have multiple nation-states on one planet.]
Maybe Americans just really don't like them.
[Revan vs 20th century Earth politics is not going so well.]
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[ Politics of an entire planet are a bit hard to learn. ]
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Like you said, I'm not sure how useful any of this will be. Maybe I should go dig up a medical textbook.
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[ Mainly because he doesn't want them slowing him down. ]