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maskormenace2017-01-24 04:38 pm
wizzardly) wrote in maskormenace2017-01-24 04:38 pm
Entry tags:
- † april ludgate | janet snakehole,
- † frederick chilton | chief of staff!!,
- † hunk | the yellow paladin,
- † james jesse | the trickster,
- † james patrick march | the master,
- † john watson | n/a,
- † kidou yuuto | playmaker,
- † leonard snart | captain cold,
- † loki laufeyson | n/a,
- † mark vorkosigan | peter michael kane,
- † red | n/a,
- † reggie mantle | n/a,
- † rincewind | n/a,
- † sherlock holmes | n/a,
- † the (twelfth) doctor | stop that
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Well, now that all the technomancy's up and running again, I don't suppose anyone ever got that riddle solved, did they? The actual one, mind. Not the one about why we lost lights and things in the first place.
[Rincewind taps a pencil with one hand against the open pages of a book thoughtfully, the other waving his lunch (an egg and cress sandwich) as he intones:]
"We did warn you. All of you have so much power. That comes at a cost. If you can't see in the darkness, then look to the stars.”
...I certainly don't remember any warning, and I've usually a keen memory for those.
Anyway, "power" seems a rather obvious double meaning, but it's the "looking to the stars" bit which has me curious. [a phrase which here means, "debating whether there's still sufficient enough impending threat to flee the country".]
ImPorts could be the stars - we certainly are in their TV and such, that's meaning enough. But if "power" has a double meaning, it stands to reason "stars" would as well. Were we actually supposed to be looking up at the night sky during all of that, do you think?
...I don't suppose anyone did any gazing while they were running about saving people?
[or just running, in Rincewind's case.]
[Rincewind taps a pencil with one hand against the open pages of a book thoughtfully, the other waving his lunch (an egg and cress sandwich) as he intones:]
"We did warn you. All of you have so much power. That comes at a cost. If you can't see in the darkness, then look to the stars.”
...I certainly don't remember any warning, and I've usually a keen memory for those.
Anyway, "power" seems a rather obvious double meaning, but it's the "looking to the stars" bit which has me curious. [a phrase which here means, "debating whether there's still sufficient enough impending threat to flee the country".]
ImPorts could be the stars - we certainly are in their TV and such, that's meaning enough. But if "power" has a double meaning, it stands to reason "stars" would as well. Were we actually supposed to be looking up at the night sky during all of that, do you think?
...I don't suppose anyone did any gazing while they were running about saving people?
[or just running, in Rincewind's case.]
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[obviously Rincewind's less inclined to tip-toe around any provocative vocabulary. Still, he says it more matter-of-factly than anything else - no insult meant. Some men are just crazy. Nothing wrong with it.]
But if he wants to spend a series of afternoons having the Luggage's toes painted and I get room service out of it, you won't hear me complain. I'll bring a card to their wedding, even.
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[a little uncomfortably:] He actually helped some, right after. Called a cab for me. Put on a bandage. ...Rather kind of him.
[something he's still not fully used to.]
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[Good man, he thinks.]
Well -- I am relieved to see that you hadn't suffered mortally. We should... Discuss this man in person, I think. Just in case.
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