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Wolf ([info]wolf_atthedoor) wrote in [info]musings,
@ 2010-09-17 13:30:00

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Entry tags:alice, boo radley, daniel jackson, hm murdock, kermit the frog, scheherezade, wolf

Hello, delicious friends.
[He skulked into the city on a stealthy scavenger hunt, sensed what he was looking for was enticingly near, and with the toothiest of grins used what little cash he had to set up shop. Wolf's arrival at Hamartia is punctuated by a merry tune as he whistles his way down the second floor. When he finds the proper apartment, there's silence. Twenty minutes or so, then the walls and floor of #204 shake: A box of something heavy is dropped. Silence again, shorter this time. Another heavy thump, then another, then another. It stops after the fourth thump.

Hamartia goes quiet (as it ever is) again. Wolf familiarizes himself with the lay of the land. Then:]

Tea shops! Stores! Cafes? No, that's coffee. Where's a body get a scone in this neck of the woods? And books! The discerning kind, what about those?



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[info]aliensarehere
2010-09-17 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Starbucks the slave chain offers scones.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Too obvious! Not secure classy enough. Don't suppose you know anywhere, ah, small? Little corner places, lots of tea, comfy chairs kind of place?

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[info]aliensarehere
2010-09-17 07:21 pm UTC (link)
HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE CHAIN THAT OWNS MY SOUL

Clearly no.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 07:43 pm UTC (link)
Clear to who?

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[info]aliensarehere
2010-09-17 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Not you?

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(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 07:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]aliensarehere, 2010-09-17 07:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 08:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]aliensarehere, 2010-09-17 08:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 10:19 pm UTC

[info]noteasy
2010-09-17 06:17 pm UTC (link)
What do you mean by 'discerning'?

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Literature, friend! Stories, fiction. Words, words, words. None of that LDS vampires nonsense, no Oprah's Book Club. The real deal!

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[info]noteasy
2010-09-17 09:40 pm UTC (link)
If you want something cheap there's a used book store a few blocks from here. Don't go to the sex store - those books aren't the ones you want. They pretend to be a regular book shop, but you'll know once you're in. If you want a wider variety and more reliability, there's a Barnes and Noble four blocks west of the Magic Store.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 10:21 pm UTC (link)
If you can't sniff out a sex shop, your nose might be broke. Magic Store?

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(no subject) - [info]noteasy, 2010-09-18 01:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-18 03:09 am UTC
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[info]thestoryweaver
2010-09-17 07:22 pm UTC (link)
It depends what sort of books. They like different places to live, and different places hold different books. You'll need to be more specific.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 07:49 pm UTC (link)
Ha! A linguist? I like it. The, uh, happy-end-horrible-curse kind. The obscene, absurd, fantastical kind. I'm full up on Dr. Phil and Eckhart Tolle. No Danielle Steele, please. Maybe some Grimm.

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[info]thestoryweaver
2010-09-17 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Not a linguist at all, I don't speak anything but English -- but books speak to me.

Perhaps a library, if you don't mind borrowing rather than owning. Some people do, they want to own the books as if the books were the stories and the stories weren't in a hundred other books just like the first. It's all rather silly, really. There's a library I know, not a public one but quite a private one, nearish the Aubade. They have a wonderful collection of that sort of thing, in amongst the other books on botany and geography and so on. It used to be someone's collection but now they loan them out.

Grimm was much better at happy endings than Anderson, but not as good as Perrault!

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 10:46 pm UTC (link)
Literally? With accents? Always figured they'd have accents.

That's the one! Borrowing's okay -- I'm used to taking other people's things, no harm, no foul. So library by the Aubade, recommended by a pro! You know your stuff, huh?

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(no subject) - [info]thestoryweaver, 2010-09-17 11:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 11:25 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 11:40 pm UTC
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[info]boo_radley
2010-09-17 09:43 pm UTC (link)
I'd like discerning books too.

But I've never had a scone, are they lovely?

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 10:49 pm UTC (link)
The fiction or the true crime kind?

They're... dry. As a bone. Good with, uh, clotted cream. Bad with beer!

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[info]boo_radley
2010-09-17 11:18 pm UTC (link)
True crime is always so very depressing, isn't it?

I've never had clotted cream either. Or beer.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-17 11:22 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes you need depressing. It's, uh, the mind's way of processing a situation to move on to a higher path. Or a better path. One of those. And some people just like reading about the nasty stuff.

Never? Ever? That's crime. What've you been doing with your life?

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(no subject) - [info]boo_radley, 2010-09-17 11:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolf_atthedoor, 2010-09-17 11:35 pm UTC
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[info]moretrashbags
2010-09-18 01:24 am UTC (link)
Not sure about scones, they kinda taste like sawdust, I think. And spiders. And I don't trust the fruit 'cause it looks like it came out of a mouse. But I know a pretty good place for pancakes, does that count?

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-18 03:43 am UTC (link)
...how many kinds of syrup do they have?

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[info]moretrashbags
2010-09-18 04:33 pm UTC (link)
Three: regular, blueberry, and ketchup. ...If you're into that.

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-18 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Don't know 'til you try! Have you?

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(no subject) - [info]moretrashbags, 2010-09-18 09:42 pm UTC
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[info]curiosities
2010-09-18 02:25 am UTC (link)
Scones are of the utmost importance! Soul Food Books serves lovely scones*, and delicious organic coffee, and also has books.



[no idea if they actually serve scones, but the rest is true. creative license. *shifty eyes*]

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-18 03:44 am UTC (link)
Jackpot! But what about the tea?

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[info]curiosities
2010-09-18 03:46 am UTC (link)
I think they serve tea, as well?

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[info]wolf_atthedoor
2010-09-18 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, thank you but maybes won't cut it. I need absolute affirmatives for tea and scones and corners.

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(no subject) - [info]curiosities, 2010-09-18 09:29 pm UTC
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