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milliways_bar2012-07-05 08:34 pm
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Mary comes into the bar from her room upstairs today, wearing a floor length dressing gown and a rather hunted expression (which is somewhat amplified by the way she skulks along the wall, heading for the door to the outside). Rationally, she knows that no one in Milliways will care what she’s wearing underneath—a get up that she had had to confer with Bar at length to settle on. But eighteen years of ingrained propriety and modesty are hard to shake.
Mary takes the path down to the lake where she divests herself of her robe and shoes. She lays them carefully on a rock, and reaches back to make sure her hair is securely braided.
She had found a new book in the Milliways library; a slim volume apparently compiled by experts titled 101 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. Some of the things the book listed are things Mary already knows how to do (Sew on a button). Others are things that she’s sure she’d be excused for not learning (Operate a computer).
But one of the book’s most adamant passages had been about the importance of knowing how to swim. This is an activity that Mary has never had the occasion to learn, but she’d taken it to heart. This will be her first attempt.
God willing, she won’t drown in the process.
Mary takes a deep breath and wades in up to her knees. It’s a start, right?
Mary takes the path down to the lake where she divests herself of her robe and shoes. She lays them carefully on a rock, and reaches back to make sure her hair is securely braided.
She had found a new book in the Milliways library; a slim volume apparently compiled by experts titled 101 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. Some of the things the book listed are things Mary already knows how to do (Sew on a button). Others are things that she’s sure she’d be excused for not learning (Operate a computer).
But one of the book’s most adamant passages had been about the importance of knowing how to swim. This is an activity that Mary has never had the occasion to learn, but she’d taken it to heart. This will be her first attempt.
God willing, she won’t drown in the process.
Mary takes a deep breath and wades in up to her knees. It’s a start, right?
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"No, far from it. But my father was. He was called the Mariner. My very first years of childhood were by the sea and my brother and I used to play in the surf. It is also a fine form of exercise."
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Mary can practically hear the capital 'M' in Mariner.
"I've never been to the seaside. But I understand it can be quite lovely."
Mary doesn't get far from Meryton very often. Milliways aside.
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And it was. In so many ways.
"The seaside can be both beautiful and terrifying," he continues "To those of my kind who have ever dwelled far from it, it is said to be able to instill so intense a longing to travel across it, that they may very well fall seriously ill from it. But I do not think it often has that effect on Men."