[ Midnight nods along! This all seems very reasonable, coming in from the outside as it were. He's happy to begin, laying an arm against the back of the couch and making himself comfortable as he figures out where to begin. ]
Thank you. Well... Let's start with where you were willing to start with me, mm? With fairytales, stories with morals for children. Although I've an interest in fairytales specifically, I haven't been able to find any in this library just yet. Instead, I made a list of titles then I liked, and then rather than write the whole synopsis for each, simply wrote down what parts of them struck me first as I recalled the story... For some, it was the characters; for others, it was certainly the way the plot went, how the world responded to the choices the characters made...
[ And he'll honestly talk about these things for hours. For someone who never had a proper higher level education, he's very articulate and has strong opinions about literature; for someone very opinionated, he has a tendency to explain his views fully and take other viewpoints under consideration very deeply. He's had a lot of conversations about books and it shows, even if none of them strictly took place in an academic environment. ]
... But I think I like it best when a character makes a surprising decision that, when you look back at their actions and thoughts over the course of the book, aren't so surprising after all. It's the sort of thing that makes me feel as though you're getting to know a character, both the good parts and the bad.
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Thank you. Well... Let's start with where you were willing to start with me, mm? With fairytales, stories with morals for children. Although I've an interest in fairytales specifically, I haven't been able to find any in this library just yet. Instead, I made a list of titles then I liked, and then rather than write the whole synopsis for each, simply wrote down what parts of them struck me first as I recalled the story... For some, it was the characters; for others, it was certainly the way the plot went, how the world responded to the choices the characters made...
[ And he'll honestly talk about these things for hours. For someone who never had a proper higher level education, he's very articulate and has strong opinions about literature; for someone very opinionated, he has a tendency to explain his views fully and take other viewpoints under consideration very deeply. He's had a lot of conversations about books and it shows, even if none of them strictly took place in an academic environment. ]
... But I think I like it best when a character makes a surprising decision that, when you look back at their actions and thoughts over the course of the book, aren't so surprising after all. It's the sort of thing that makes me feel as though you're getting to know a character, both the good parts and the bad.