Entry 607; Day 1459

[misterblackbird]

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There was a man, a mad doctor, in London who was fond of collecting the eyes of young women and preserving them in jars.

Perhaps he did mean to use those eyes at the end as part of an arcane black magic ritual.

And yet, all the same--

I never in all my life thought that I would come to understand him so well as I do now.

~C.

[ooc: So very cursed, but trying to resist. After all, his brother's the mad doctor's motivations were quite different from what he believes are his own now.]

Comments

voice;

[misterblackbird]

Very well, then: by reason and by consideration. It is possible to come to understand a person by simply thinking. How else could novels and plays work?

[sleepingstar]

I don't read. [She's not illiterate exactly, but she's never had the opportunity nor the inclination to read for pleasure. She watches movies with her brother, but they mostly just make fun of the completely ridiculous fighting styles and ignorance of basic physics. The emotional content of stories, how people feel, how they relate to one another, is largely lost on her.

The idea that you can come to understand another person through stories about fake people is strange to her. Human beings are irrational; how can you use rational means to comprehend them?]

[misterblackbird]

Then I suppose you can't understand at all.

[sleepingstar]

Not when you don't explain it.

[misterblackbird]

I doubt you'd understand it even if I did.

[sleepingstar]

Then it wouldn't have been a particularly good explanation.

[misterblackbird]

I can hardly force you to understand, you know.

[sleepingstar]

You're not even trying.

[misterblackbird]

Neither are you.

[sleepingstar]

[So very unimpressed.]