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[personal profile] kaberett
I made it to the top of the library queue, so I am currently reading La Belle Sauvage, the new Philip Pullman. I am greatly enjoying it and I'm especially greatly enjoying having recently completed a full reread, including the two tiny books, but how absorbing and delicate and delightful I'm finding the process is not in this instance the point. No, it is not.

You see, our protagonist -- this is, as best I can tell thus far, not in any way a spoiler -- is currently reading two books: The Body in the Library and A Brief History Of Time.

I had been primed to expect one of these books to be a thriller.

It still took me three mentions, of which the last is literally "The Body in the Library, however, was gripping", to realise that this probably wasn't a His Dark Materials-verse sociological treatise on the (presumably contested) nature of embodiment in archival spaces.

... I thought some of you might enjoy this.

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Date: 2017-11-22 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ewt
But now I want someone to write a "His Dark Materials-verse sociological treatise on the [...] nature of embodiment in archival spaces."

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Date: 2017-11-23 03:56 pm (UTC)
batrachian: (Lurking Frog)
From: [personal profile] batrachian
My answer is probably obvious. >.>

(Would still read the thing.)

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Date: 2017-11-22 02:45 pm (UTC)
watersword: Keira Knightley, in Pride and Prejudice (2007), turning her head away from the viewer, the word "elizabeth" written near (Default)
From: [personal profile] watersword
What [personal profile] ewt said.

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Date: 2017-11-22 03:21 pm (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
I predicted your tag ;)

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Date: 2017-11-22 03:46 pm (UTC)
sylvaine: Dark-haired person with black eyes & white pupils. (Default)
From: [personal profile] sylvaine
:D

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Date: 2017-11-22 05:02 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
XD

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Date: 2017-11-22 05:07 pm (UTC)
cereta: Julie MacKenzie as Miss Marple (Miss Marple)
From: [personal profile] cereta
I'm just using my icon, even though it's technically the wrong Marple.

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Date: 2017-11-22 07:05 pm (UTC)
fyreharper: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fyreharper
XD

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Date: 2017-11-22 08:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alatefeline
:D

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Date: 2017-11-24 03:18 pm (UTC)
katzenfabrik: A black-and-white icon of a giant cat inside a factory building. The cat's tail comes out of the factory chimney. (Default)
From: [personal profile] katzenfabrik
I love this.

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Date: 2017-11-24 03:18 pm (UTC)
katzenfabrik: A black-and-white icon of a giant cat inside a factory building. The cat's tail comes out of the factory chimney. (Default)
From: [personal profile] katzenfabrik
Also, it took me several tries to not read your title as 'your humble despot'. Not sure what that says about me.

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