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paradisa2012-11-29 02:58 pm
theabjectauthor) wrote in paradisa2012-11-29 02:58 pm
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Journal the Second
[To All Who Helped Recover The Seven Virtues; Written]
To My Kind Volunteers,
It is with gratitude and curiosity that I write to you this afternoon. It seems that there were a great many of you who assisted in the search for the eclectic - a phrase which here means "strange and in some cases downright impractical" - errata required to help cure our fellow residents of their malicious maladies. My gratitude is well-founded because, plainly, all cases of infection have been successfully cured. Who knows how long the terrible circumstances could have persisted without your steadfast intervention? My curiosity is also well-founded, because it is not necessarily human nature - or, to be more politically correct, the nature of living beings in general - to be so magnanimous toward our fellow beings without any promise or suggestion of some form of recompense. Therefore, keeping my utmost gratitude and admiration for your efforts in mind, if you do not mind my asking, what was it that made each of you volunteer? Was it, perhaps, that a colleague of yours had taken ill, or that their actions had caused you some manner of grief? Are you perhaps simply germophobic, and wished to purge the castle of any rampant irregularities? Or are you simply the sort of person who believes in the concept of fighting metaphorical fires as they arise? Whatever the case, I await your responses, and would gladly invite you to my room, 1907 Gaudium Tower, for a cup of tea or some other beverage of gratitude, as well as a pleasant conversation, if you so wish.
With all due respect,
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[the letter properly composed, Lemony caps his favorite fountain pen, tucks it in his pocket, and heads out for a stroll]
I had heard that there is a room where the seasons change indoors ... is it, by any chance, open for visitors this afternoon? If so, what are the weather conditions, so that I might dress accordingly?
To My Kind Volunteers,
It is with gratitude and curiosity that I write to you this afternoon. It seems that there were a great many of you who assisted in the search for the eclectic - a phrase which here means "strange and in some cases downright impractical" - errata required to help cure our fellow residents of their malicious maladies. My gratitude is well-founded because, plainly, all cases of infection have been successfully cured. Who knows how long the terrible circumstances could have persisted without your steadfast intervention? My curiosity is also well-founded, because it is not necessarily human nature - or, to be more politically correct, the nature of living beings in general - to be so magnanimous toward our fellow beings without any promise or suggestion of some form of recompense. Therefore, keeping my utmost gratitude and admiration for your efforts in mind, if you do not mind my asking, what was it that made each of you volunteer? Was it, perhaps, that a colleague of yours had taken ill, or that their actions had caused you some manner of grief? Are you perhaps simply germophobic, and wished to purge the castle of any rampant irregularities? Or are you simply the sort of person who believes in the concept of fighting metaphorical fires as they arise? Whatever the case, I await your responses, and would gladly invite you to my room, 1907 Gaudium Tower, for a cup of tea or some other beverage of gratitude, as well as a pleasant conversation, if you so wish.
With all due respect,
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[the letter properly composed, Lemony caps his favorite fountain pen, tucks it in his pocket, and heads out for a stroll]
I had heard that there is a room where the seasons change indoors ... is it, by any chance, open for visitors this afternoon? If so, what are the weather conditions, so that I might dress accordingly?
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