two.

[sidewayseeing]

The library is quiet.
Quiet and calm and smells of paper and dust and  y e s t e r d a y.
I find it quite pleasant.

The children are quite pleasant as well.
Though their literature, upon occasion, contains rather befuddling situations.

For example:
Is the more relevant question of the  novel  the rightfully desired consumption of questionably-

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[xworthless_onex]

I think they like the idea of animals being like humans and food being weird more than reality.

[sidewayseeing]

Oh,  unreality  isn't a problem.
Though I suppose that it's preferable.
(And understandably so.)
For those who haven't lost their appreciation for it.

I do remain uncertain as to what type of animal they are intended to be, precisely.

[xworthless_onex]

I think they're make believe. I don't see how they could be real.

[sidewayseeing]

The difference is easy to mistake.
For which one is which is never precisely as clear as one would initially anticipate.

I suppose it's a matter of taste.

[morphingreality]

I suppose it's strangeness is meant to amuse.

[sidewayseeing]

Oh, certainly.
Especially with voices, darling.
But one still wonders.

[morphingreality]

Would you read them to the children?

It's hard not to, after the first thought.

[sidewayseeing]

I suppose one could say:
I would read them in the rain. And in the dark. And on a train.

There are, after all, a relatively large number of locations offered.
[Both here and there.]Though I would prefer to leave out the abduction unless strictly necessary.

[unloved_nymph]

It certainly sounds, um, entertaining. One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

[sidewayseeing]

Oh, children usually are.
They are rather well-suited for it.
Some are red and some are blue.
Some are old and some are new.

[justfivemore]

We should make a rainbow breakfast, love, add dye to the eggs and let the orange juice be.

These mortals once had purple catsup and I was intrigued enough to purchase some, but it was such a foul colour I could not make myself ingest it.

[sidewayseeing]

Could we?
Blues and reds. (But no greens. They make things look sickly. Even accompanied by boxes and foxes.)
Oh, and orange juice that wasn't orange would simply be unnatural.

No purples then either? In case?