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[restingstitchface]

My parole officer is blue in the face. I believe he's struggling to restrain his enthusiasm for our conversations, poor creature.

[Crane's voice is softer than before. If you've listened to his older posts, sent by his Scarecrow identity, the venom has been drawn out of it. His inflection of words is shorter. He controls himself better; sharper articulation, less energy, more subtle distinctions. Different pauses, too.]

I wonder, on a more gentle note, how you spend your free time.

What compositions spark your imagination? What beautiful works of art grasp your concentration? Cite your favorite passages of prose, poetry and drama, if you would; great books of literature that knock you out when you're all done reading.

[He sniffs and curls his lip.]

Still, most of you enjoy works that necessitate you should have been imprisoned instead of I, speaking honestly.

[If you cite Bieber or E.L. James, you're disqualified from having any opinion, ever. BYE.]

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[Audio]

[timecapture]

Well, you already know who I like.

[restingstitchface]

Yes I do.

[It's not Jefferson!]

So which of Poe's works do you enjoy on a dark, wet night?

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[sleight_of_hand]

[...wow that first part was subtle. Gee, he bet his parole officer was also just checking in by phone and not showing up at the station any more too.]

[Damn did this guy creep him out.]

Books, hunh?

I don't read as much as I used to, so nothing current. I remember enjoying anything put out by Murakami-san when I was younger, though.

[timecapture]

Honestly? It's really stereotypical, but I like "The Raven."

[She knows, she knows. She may as well just hand in her hipster card now.]

[restingstitchface]

Yes, books. I also requested music and portraiture, in case you missed that.

Now, Murakami is a contemporary writer the great American public may not be familiar with. Will you educate the class, detective?

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[hoboagogo]

...Man, I read enough for school to be sick of it.

When I got nothing going on, I mostly check out the westerns on Netflix. And Florida Man, but I dunno when the next season's starting.

VOICE.

[mantlepieces]

Speaking honestly, I don't think anyone's gonna take what an ex-con thinks people should go to prison for all that seriously.

[ He pauses, though, as if considering how to answer. ]

Anyway. Gameshows.

[restingstitchface]

[Don't cut yourself on that edge, Max.]

It's a chilling verse, isn't it? And who is your lost Lenore, I wonder?

[restingstitchface]

I cannot believe you are sick of reading, Shinjiro.

Learn to focus! Instead of lounging around in your nightclothes and goggling what's on the set, go into another room and learn how to read. Learn some discipline.

[timecapture]

[Oh, hell no. Do not go there, Crane.]

I'd say it's more comfortable than chilling, actually. IT's sort of how Poe's work has always felt, even though it gets really creepy.

I don't have one?

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[prostheticbody]

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

[restingstitchface]

[He sucks in air. One bird puffing out his feathers, brandishing his culture like plumage.]

... Gameshows. Right.

[How the fuck are those cultured, Reggie? Huh?]

Given this is a public post, I'm not going to stop you. Should anyone care...

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[restingstitchface]

Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.

An excellent choice.

[mantlepieces]

[ They're a good study of the competitive human condition and charismatic personalities, doctor. ]

Hey, you asked. Gameshows and reality TV -- it's good stuff, even you could probably learn a thing or two.

[prostheticbody]

It seems to hit most of your notes. Figured you might get some insight from a re-read.

[hoboagogo]

I know how to read. [It's huffed. But... really, sometimes the English is hard, ok. The translator can only help so much with older works. And 12th grade Literature loves it some old classics.]

I figure I could spend my free time doing something I like, or wading through crap like that 'Scarlet Letter' book we spent a damn week on.

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[laruetheday]

You have a parole officer?

[ Pfft what a loser. ]

[sleight_of_hand]

H-ha... my music tastes are embarrassing...

Uh, well... a lot of the literature snobs complain he's un-Japanese, 'cause his writing's really Western influenced. A lot of what he writes borders on realism and fantasy mixed together.

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[brushoff]

"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

[ yes, Dorian is quoting Picture of Dorian Gray like the cliche motherfucker he is. ]

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[glitterateur]

That'll do, pig!

[Surely even Grumpy McPoor Ideas About Halloween can appreciate Babe.]

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[huntergames]

How come you always want to know these things about other people?

[ She's highly suspicious. ]

permavoice

[restingstitchface]

... What?

[Guess who's the one person who hasn't seen that film? This guy.]

permavoice

[restingstitchface]

Curiosity.

Now, do you care to share? Your favorite novel, perhaps?

[Wow. Come on, Sasha. He's only asking a polite question, here. He hasn't mentioned fear once! You're not... scared... are you?]

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[restingstitchface]

[RUDE.]

It appears I've been stuck with one, yes.

I don't really care, mind.

[huntergames]

[ She'll teleport over and knock down that entire bookshelf. ]

Not really. I like movies and comics better.