InsaneJournal

[a series of badly dictated messages]:

Mr Norrell?

[1 hour later] Mr Norrell? Can you read this? If you can read this, Gilbert Norrell, please reply or else send me a missive via the method described on Ormskirk--ah, d---, I'm fairly certain that it's either 422 or 442.

[3 hours later] I'm looking for a man called Gilbert Norrell. He's of small stature, between fifty and sixty-- unremarkable in appearance-- dressed, er, much the same way I am, I suppose, although he wears a periwig-- If anyone's seen him, please do send a message my way, we're not really meant to be separated in the ordinary course of things. ... Hah, I make it sound as if he's my disoriented father! No, he isn't my father, though I suppose he must be rather disoriented, I know that I certainly

[3.5 hours later] am. There must be a better way to use this d----d thing--

[3.6 hours later] Oh, there's a little rectangle with the alphabet!