winksandnods: (Newspaper reading)
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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.

Anthony Blunt, to say the least, is on edge.

He's taken to drawing lately, more than he has in years. Though, unlike what he's told his fellows, he never really abandoned his art. His scenes are bleak, though-- Snowy buildings that loom and cast long shadows. Scabbed skin with numbers just visible under the wound. Complacent wraiths. All of the sketches are safely hidden in a journal kept under a floorboard in his bedroom.

He can think of no way in. The talk of "missions" he's heard have not seemed to endear individuals to the Malnosso, so volunteering for one would be only suicide, not helpful. Their captors have been silent themselves, there has been, so far as he has seen, no direct line to speak to them. Except, perhaps, just before Halloween, but he had not been in a proper state to ask questions then.]

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Date: 2011-12-04 08:56 pm (UTC)
herotypical: [ snark ; conversation ; angry ; neutral ] (✝ on my hands and knees)
From: [personal profile] herotypical
I'm not convinced that God has anything to do with it. Him or any other deity.

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Date: 2011-12-04 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
...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.]

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Date: 2011-12-04 09:04 pm (UTC)
herotypical: [ angry ; snarky ] (✝ to function -- it's hereditary)
From: [personal profile] herotypical
[ 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. ]

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Date: 2011-12-04 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
[Complacent wraiths.]

I have a hard time enjoying idleness.

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Date: 2011-12-04 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boomchucka.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2011-12-04 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
[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.

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Date: 2011-12-05 02:16 am (UTC)
shadedsunlight: (Tried to talk to god with no avail)
From: [personal profile] shadedsunlight
Depends on which part you're trying to stand.

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Date: 2011-12-06 07:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
Let us begin with "everything."

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Date: 2011-12-06 07:26 am (UTC)
shadedsunlight: (The weather today is slightly sarcastic)
From: [personal profile] shadedsunlight
The same way anything else life may throw at you is dealt with; with patience and a lot of whisky.

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Date: 2011-12-06 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
...Ah, yes. One can't care that one has no purpose if one is sufficiently intoxicated. Of course.

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Date: 2011-12-05 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pugilistinpink.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2011-12-06 07:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2011-12-06 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pugilistinpink.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2011-12-07 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
Wonderful ways of passing the time, no doubt.

But what do they do? What does it accomplish?

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Date: 2011-12-05 09:42 am (UTC)
inabook: (worldly adventurer)
From: [personal profile] inabook
People have a remarkable capacity for adapting even in bad situations. And, well... for most of us, there are friendships to keep us going.

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Date: 2011-12-06 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
And apparently "idleness" is the preferred method for "adapting" here.

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Date: 2011-12-06 06:31 pm (UTC)
inabook: (oh you)
From: [personal profile] inabook
[...] I suppose that depends on what you call being idle.

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Date: 2011-12-07 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
I would delight in being proven wrong and shown productivity. I can think of a few sources, and this does not apply to them.

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Date: 2011-12-05 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deadlydebutante.livejournal.com
Staying in my room has helped, for the most part.

[And trolling observing other's posts to the network. Might as well get an idea of what she's dealing with.]

Though I guess it depends on how 'important' social interaction is to you.

Date: 2011-12-06 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
Social interaction, I can take or leave. Productivity, I consider essential.

Date: 2011-12-08 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deadlydebutante.livejournal.com
You can be productive in your room, you know. [Obviously.]

Date: 2011-12-09 06:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] winksandnods.livejournal.com
I've no doubt of it. [Merely doubts about whether you are.]

Date: 2011-12-05 07:06 pm (UTC)
menial: ($ why do people not give me space)
From: [personal profile] menial
Heavy doses of sarcasm.

Date: 2011-12-06 04:57 pm (UTC)
menial: (~ what.)
From: [personal profile] menial
Yeah, that's the spirit.

['Or lack of spirit.']

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