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Do I like Books?
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Scenario 1:
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BOOKS AS GIFTS
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Someone gives me a Book as a gift!
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“Thank you very much for the book!”
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“I am very grateful!”
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“This means a lot to me!”
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“No!”
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“You cannot borrow it!”
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“And you certainly are not allowed to put fucking marks all over it!”
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“It is now mine!”
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“It is my precious!...”
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Scenario 2:
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TIME TRAVEL
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I somehow manage to personally meet William Shakespeare!
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“I’ll break my staff and bury it far underground and throw my book of magic spells deeper into the sea than any anchor ever sank”
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“Fuck off William!”
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“You! Selfish dick head!”
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“I don’t give two craps about your length of wood!”
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“But, If you do not want those cool books then do not waste them!”
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"Give them to me and let me have them!"
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“NO!”
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“I do Not want you to sign it first!”
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“Piss off! You evil book murderer!”
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Scenario 3:
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HISTORY 101.
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I find out at age 10 about the burning of Great Library of Alexandria!
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I am now 46!
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Yes!
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I am the sort of person that still get extremely pissed off,
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Every time I think of,
Burning of the Great Library of Alexandria!
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Scenario 4:
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SWEET TEMPTATION!.
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Temptation by the forces of Evil!
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Wanting to read everything ever,
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Is the only decent reason to want physical immortality.
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Evil Vampire!:
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“Once you taste of my blood,”
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“You will never get to see another sunrise!”
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“You will have to sustain yourself from the blood of the living!”
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“You will be forever tormented and cursed!”
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Me:
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“Yeh!”
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“But on the plus side, I do get the ability to read in the dark?”
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“Correct?”
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Scenario 5:
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THE MIND!
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Insanity!
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I am not sure if there is such a thing as “Book Sickness” Or “Book Madness” the same way Tolkien described “Gold Sickness” Or “Gold Madness”,
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But if there is,
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I definitely have it!
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Although I would instead use the terms,
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"Totally reasonable about books!"
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Or
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"Book Sanity!"
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Instead!
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Scenario 6:
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Judging Others!
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“Hermione Granger and Belle are only mere ‘want to be’ lightweights!”
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“They are not ‘Real Readers!’ like me!”
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Scenario 7:
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Common Mistakes!
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Apparently....
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The proper term for light breezy modern female-led fiction is,
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"Chick Lit,"
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It is NOT called,
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What I happened to think it was called,
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"Clit Lit,"
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Oops!
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Sorry!
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Scenario 8:
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NERDY BOOK FLIRT!
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Hey!
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Is THAT a large 'Card Index Box' in my pocket?
Or
Am I only glad to see you 'still appreciate the Dewey Decimal Classification System'?
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Conclusion.
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I may very well have a very slight subtle fondness for books.
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But nothing that I cannot handle,
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I can stop any time I want!
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I know this because I checked and self-assessed myself from a Book and it informed Me that I was perfectly normal and “ok”.
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Dieting HAM-let
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Mmmmm go get a Pizza or not get a Pizza,
that is the question.
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Whether it is nobler in the Gut to suffer the Tomato and Cheese of outrageous fortune
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Or
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To take on a sea of Salad and by that end them...
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A Dad Scenario 4
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Family Priorities!
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DAD:
“What are you all doing?”
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10-Year-Old Daughter:
“Me and Mummy are looking up ‘Warrior Cat’ Books on Amazon for my birthday.”
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DAD:
“Cool,”
“It will be nice to have some emergency toilet paper if we need it.”
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10-Year-Old Daughter:
“DADDY!”
<Her eyes narrow…>
“I WILL slit your throat!”
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MUM
“EXCUSE ME!"
"You two!"
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DAD AND 10-Year-Old Daughter:
“What?”
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MUM
“We DO NOT joke about things like that IN ‘THIS’ family…!”
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<…Slight pause…>
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<…MUM looks at DAD…>
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MUM:
“We NEVER EVER joke about harming…”
“…. Books!”
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About the Creator
Ross E Fortune Lombardi
Writer and Artist.
A (Constantly Failing To Be Funny) satirist!
Mutare non est meum
Cantus moriar
BLOG:
http://lombot.co.uk
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/@Rat_Lombot/featured
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