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*Fate breezes into the bar as breezily as a smug being like Fate can breeze. Which is to say that he blows through the door in the form of an unusually cold gust of wind before solidifying into a seated figure at the bar, not that he enters cheerily and casually. After all, that is much harder.*

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*The Librarian brightens.* Oook eek ee chruchu ook ook eek rrukook?

Eekumook chookums.

*The Librarian gives him a funny look. Must be a different dialect. Still, understandable.* Ook eek eekunukook. *He nods and looks wise.* Ooknuukuk ook, 'Eeek ook ook eeek ook.'

Ook ek ik eek. Ook.

Oook eeek chuchu ch ookeeekook ooook. Eeek. *The Librarian seems vaguely puzzled.*

[[You are not familiar with the great works of Lu-Tze? Are you not in the Century of the Fruitbat? A human much like yourself, I think. Silly person, though. Never had bananas.]]

Eeek! Ook. Ooook. Ook.

[[I am no human! But I do like bananas.]]

Eeek ook rurrk uck ookeek.

[[What variety do you prefer? Personally, I love the Oook versions. Such a lovely flavour. But they have a tendency to smear all over books, which is tiresome.]]

Kkook. Eek ook ick uck.

[[Oh, well, the celestial kind are best really. No mess.]]

Ick rruk ook eek.

[[Celestials are prone to holes. Very nasty. Sucks your tongue in.]]

Ick ook eeeeeeeeek.

[[Not when you've just frozen them.]]

Ook eeek ook rruk ick! Eeek uck eeek oook.

[[Excuse my Drughabian, but eat stalk! I know of no method of freezing. I suspect you withold banana+.]]

+Lie. Simian is a very expressive language in some ways.

Oook ook oook ock.

[[My bananas are up. I live where it is very, very cold.]]

Ook ook eek ook rruk uck oook eek ee oook.

[[Poor you, then. I live where warm and many banana plantations, delivery free of charge.]]

*Fate snorts.* Ook.

[[Poor you, rather, Ankh-Morporkian.]]

*The Librarian shakes his head.* Oook eeek.

[[The river does leave a banana to be wanted.]]

Eeek ook.

[[And the inhabitants.]]

Oook ruuk!

[[Not all of them.]]

Uck.

[[Most.]]

Ook eeek oook.

[[They give me bananas.]]

Oook eek.

[[Well, they can be taught.]]

Ook eeek ook rrrukchu.

[[Ones who learn the way of the banana think they are clever by bringing me bananas. They do not have enough bananas in the head.]]

Oook eek ook ook.

[[Well, what human does? I mean, really.]]

Ook eeek oook ook ooooook ock eeek ruk oook eek ook ook oook.

[[True. They are lacking in bananas. Sometimes I think they think only by rolling the few bananas in their heads around an idea and then smashing it with another banana. It is a most saddening rot-banana.]]

*simply* Ook.

[[Banana.]]

*The Librarian offers him his coffee cup.*

Ook ook eeek oook.

[[This strong banana smoothie.]]