Theodore "Theo" Felicis (barbedwirekitty) wrote in anathemamain, @ 2008-08-03 21:49:00 |
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Current mood: | confused |
he's down with the metric system
Who: Kitty & Ben
What: Ben and Kitty meet up in the library of confusing times
Where: The library
Why: teenage kicks
When: Some convenient hour
Rating: TBC
For someone who'd had no formal education in his formative and early years Kitty was quite able to study and understand most of what he was being taught.
Maths hadn't been a problem for him, although it was taking him some time to get to grips with thinking about them as problems and formulas instead of drug weights and petty cash, but he knew the numbers it was just turning it to make it make sense in his head.
English wasn't a problem. He'd been taught by a prostitute who was a Romantic and insisted that if the boy didn't know how to read or write he'd die in the gutter where he'd started. She was adamant that this wouldn't happen to him, and he thanked her for making him learn every day now.
Lycanthropy was an eye opener, he fell asleep in History and Chemistry was probably more interesting to him than was healthy - he was intrigued by a science where he could learn how to blow things up.
Of all his classes, the area he had the most difficulty in was finding the reference books he needed for them. He knew the alphabet, and he knew numbers, but this was an entirely new ballgame. He didn't know about Melvil Dewey, but if he had he would be looking to seek revenge for this travesty on his descendents.
He looked down at the now dirt-smeared paper in his hands, with the names of some books recommended to him scrawled down in his peculiar, angular lettering, and then back up at the shelves.
He whimpered pitifully.
He was lost in a sea of shelves and pages, he couldn't see the door he'd entered through and he wondered if this was what claustrophobia felt like. He swore, a little too loudly for the library, and looked up, wondering if climbing up onto the top of the bookshelves to try and navigate out would be seen as a detainable offence.