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Perfectly understandable. The books are written in a way that you either want to read it all at once (to get it over with) or drag it out as long as possible. I don't blame you.

Yeah, it's kind of like pulling off a band-aid.

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Good analogy.

Why thank you.

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Those books, though somewhat wretched in their own right, are terribly seductive when I really ought to be doing the reading required for English.

Going back to the pen thing, my fountain pen seems to work very well on skin, so I'll bring that in tomorrow. I just hope you're not allergic to India ink or whatever it is that's in there.

Oh I know, it's awful trying to do other work with it open on my computer.

That should be fine; I know I'm not allergic to India ink or whatever.

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Who the hell is allergic to ink?

Me. My skin has an odd reaction to permanent marker ink.

[Lightning]

Hmm. Then it's probably not a good idea to play with a sharpie.

Nah, I don't suppose so. Thus the reason it's so very important that we have a functioning ball point pen tomorrow.