Three Bells: [WRITTEN] - New Horizons in Lit Appreciation

[simplestgift]

They have everything Shakespeare ever wrote in the library.  Everything!  It's a fountain of gold.  I could spend days here.  I'd sleep here if they'd let me.  I don't think I've ever been happier.  And there's no theatre group here?  None?  Do people here not realize what they have?  What kind of a world is this?

In case anyone asks, I'll be in the library for the rest of my life.

[Or really just the rest of the day.   At some point he'll have to come up for air and grab something to eat at the 7th Heaven, where he'll be buried in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  It'll be dark before he goes home, carrying only a single book.]

Comments

[written]

[herotypical]

Think about it -- do you really want to tease the girl who pours your beers?

[written]

[simplestgift]

Can I answer that in a way that won't earn a socking?

[written]

[herotypical]

You can certainly try to.

[written]

[simplestgift]

[More hesitation.]

No?

[written]

[herotypical]

I'm not going to hit you, Archie. Cool your worry jets.

[ unless of course you hurt dawn. then she might hit you three times. ]

[written]

[simplestgift]

Then I got the right answer?

[written]

[herotypical]

You make it sound like a pop quiz! Also, how did you ye olde types manage it in the pre-phone days. All this handwriting is giving me a cramp.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Then switch to voice. It comes a bit easier to someone as ancient and obsolete as I am to write notes instead of talking to something that isn't even alive. And to answer your question, we don't write letters constantly.

[written]

[herotypical]

[ and because now this feels like a challenge, she keeps writing. ]

Ancient =/= obsolete, Archie. But that's okay -- at least your writing is neat.

[written]

[simplestgift]

It comes with practice, which seems to be in short supply in your time.

Now, back to the part where I'm ancient.

[written]

[herotypical]

Okay, so maybe I've met ancienter.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I'm not quite twenty-six!

[written]

[herotypical]

And I'm only just twenty-five. That makes you the ancienter one.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I concede your point. How tall are you?

[written]

[herotypical]

5'2'' and a half.

[ because that extra half an inch is very important. and probably made up. ]

[written]

[simplestgift]

Fearless, are we?

[It doesn't matter that he's known men who weren't a lot taller than that.]

[written]

[herotypical]

More like I find my relative lack of height catches the baddies off guard.

[written]

[simplestgift]

That is a more optimistic way of looking at it than I was thinking of. Are you working at Good Spirits tonight?

[He's avoiding calling it a "bar" because it feels awkward or an "alehouse" because he knows no one else calls it that, so he'll just refer to it by its proper name.]

[written]

[herotypical]

I've got the evening off. The perks of returning from my birthday bash a little sooner than expected.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Oh! Are you and Dawn returning soon, then?

[Dawn said as much, but still...]

[written]

[herotypical]

[ buffy had waited until getting back home to reply, so: ] Just got in.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Then I presume she'll be along shortly.

[Unless she forgot. Or decided not to come and didn't tell him. Oy.]

[written]

[herotypical]

We did just hike back from the lake. She'll want to powder her nose.

[written]

[simplestgift]

She lives with a vampire, you say?

[written]

[herotypical]

One of the very few who aren't out to tear throats and drink the human juice.