3rd Code - audio

[winksandnods]

How in God's name do you all stand this?

[Too many long nights spent able to do nothing more than read the Journals, which provide no insight to the Malnosso. Too many cups of coffee and glasses of Scotch and soda. Too many questions he can't find answers to

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[ voice ]

[slaying]

I'm not convinced that God has anything to do with it. Him or any other deity.

[ voice ]

[winksandnods]

...Of course.

[There's always at least one who has to try and joke.

But it won't do to snap at people. He ought to at least try and keep trying to get along. Though it's far harder when he is getting more and more restless.]

[ voice ]

[slaying]

[ sometimes a joke is more than a joke. ]

This place is tricky. The opposite of cut and dry. It's...uncut and wet. Dampish. To some people? This place is paradise.

[ not to her, no. this is no paradise. but there are...perks. ]

[ voice ]

[winksandnods]

[Complacent wraiths.]

I have a hard time enjoying idleness.

[boomchucka]

Reading, training, school lessons, piano lessons. I know it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot to do in Luceti but you really have to find it because it's not gonna find you.

[winksandnods]

[Meanwhile, you have a leash around your neck, keeping you from going anywhere outside a nice little yard.]

And what is it you want to do? Long-term and large-scale.

[Voice]

[shadedsunlight]

Depends on which part you're trying to stand.

[Voice]

[winksandnods]

Let us begin with "everything."

[Voice]

[shadedsunlight]

The same way anything else life may throw at you is dealt with; with patience and a lot of whisky.

[Voice]

[winksandnods]

...Ah, yes. One can't care that one has no purpose if one is sufficiently intoxicated. Of course.

[pugilistinpink]

Don' got much we can do, Mr.Anthony. [An apologetic, pursed-lipped smile.] 'ts best not think about it too much. It's the kind a' thing that'll keep anyone up at night an' make 'em go crazy.

[winksandnods]

That is precisely the thing. No one does anything. A few people run shops, though it is hardly of any use, as there is nothing to buy. A seamstress, I have heard of. At least that is something productive.

[pugilistinpink]

Hey, wait a sec, that ain't true... Even if we ain't out a' the barrier, people still do a lot around here. What about Pao-lin's art project... or that big Christmas party a few days back? Nobody's forgettin' that we's stuck in this place right now. We's jus' tryin' t'make good. W'doin' things that mean somethin' to us. I can stop trainin' anytime while I'm here 'cause I know I ain't gonna 'member nothin' when I go back, but I ain't gonna do that. It's important t'me. It's important t'me jus' like runnin' shops probably is important to the people who do it.

Why don'chya, iunno, draw everybody in Luceti? Guy told me y'good at art. If y'don' like that, you can teach people things, y'know? Or try somethin' diff'rent. Hell, I can show ya a lil' bit 'bout boxin', if y'wanted.

[winksandnods]

Wonderful ways of passing the time, no doubt.

But what do they do? What does it accomplish?

[inabook]

[voice]

[winksandnods]

And apparently "idleness" is the preferred method for "adapting" here.

[inabook]

[voice]

[winksandnods]

I would delight in being proven wrong and shown productivity. I can think of a few sources, and this does not apply to them.