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There, in the back booth... see him?
The man falling asleep over 'The Kraken Wakes' by John Whydham?
That is Random. Come say hello, the book is good, but conversation is better.
The man falling asleep over 'The Kraken Wakes' by John Whydham?
That is Random. Come say hello, the book is good, but conversation is better.
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It's a fine sort of challenge. No meaning in it, perhaps, or all meaning. Beauty is in detail.
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He tilts his head.
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"Damn you," he says at length, but rather fondly. "The game to you, then."
He chuckles wryly, shaking his head. "Eliminate the impossible, and whatever remains, however improbable...must be truth. But when the only possible solution denies any existance of a solution, what can it mean?"
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"It means you are alive, Holmes."
He tilts his head, then, and laughs.
"And also, perhaps, that you have met me."
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He shrugs angular shoulders. "Although to borrow your expression, if I may, we are in fact well met. You are a frustrating creature, and a strangely sensible one nevertheless." He pauses to think a moment, then chuckles low in his throat.
"Or perhaps madness recognizes similar madness as good sense."
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"Coyote often calls me batshit insane, so you may have something, there."
He tilts his head, still laughing softly.
"And you have a surprisingly good grasp of my nature from the little we have spoken. Logic does not serve you so poorly, I do not think."
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He draws in a breath, then lets it out with a puff of smoke.
"I would apologize for misjudging you, but that I had so little evidence with which to make any judgment at all," he says at length. Not that he's entertaining thoughts of going after Random just now, either. A breach of trust is still a breach, no matter to whom a secret has been told.
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"It is nothing. I am difficult to offend. There is no need for apology."
Then he laughs.
"We are very different creatures, you and I. Logic serves me but poorly."
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Such is the framework and machinery of his mind--all things should be reduced to the linear. Cause and effect.
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Very different creatures, indeed. And Random somewhere between the two of them, he supposes.
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"I have made it an art form."
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"It is not the only thing I am dedicated to, certainly. I have unplumbed depths."
He laughs