Jester pushed the book away from his face. Lisa looked at him like he was some kind of alien piece of shit. Which was not far from truth, but what of it?
“You want to know why I don't read books?”
“Enlighten me.”
“Because books are full of useless imagined things of others and real life is much weirder than anything, anyone can imagine. Every time you bury your nose in a book, you're peeling yourself away from reality and living in a make-believe world that doesn't do anyone any good except the people who are making money off the books that you're reading. You're not even creating your own world, you're living in someone else's borrowed and diseased imagination that is created by tropes and formulas to make you feel at home, to make you feel things that can be hundred times magnified but you choose to ignore that. You choose to ignore your life and your purpose, and keep reading book after book after book because real life, is fucking terrible in all its beauty.”
Then Jester did something horrible. He took the book from Lisa's hand and threw it away as hard as it could.
Lisa's eyes went wide and lower lip quivered.
“That was extremely rude of you, Mr. J. I wish I could unhear those words but they'll stay with me till the day I die.”
Jester simply rolled his eyes. “It's just books, why'd get your emotions in a tangle over a bunch of words on paper.”
“Because to some of us, those words are life!”
“Life? Life is not in the books! Life is outside the books! You're living second hand through the books. Burn your books today and get out of the house and do non book things! Live, for fuck's sake!”
“I don't believe a single word you say. You're not going to convince me to whatever is on your mind. I need my books and I am going to get them one way or the other. Once the Mongrifier gets the card from that perverted man, I'll be on my way and we'll never see each other again.”
“Who the hell said I wanted to see you again, you deluded woman.”
“Oh, you would when one day you need to read a book and there is no one you know who'd tell you the right book to read. You'll be crawling on your knees to the steps of my library and I'd tell you to shut the fuck up and crawl back to whichever hole you dropped from.”
Jester was about to retort when the air behind Lisa blurred and the large form of the Mongrifier emerged from the blurring air.
“You want to know why I don't read books?”
“Enlighten me.”
“Because books are full of useless imagined things of others and real life is much weirder than anything, anyone can imagine. Every time you bury your nose in a book, you're peeling yourself away from reality and living in a make-believe world that doesn't do anyone any good except the people who are making money off the books that you're reading. You're not even creating your own world, you're living in someone else's borrowed and diseased imagination that is created by tropes and formulas to make you feel at home, to make you feel things that can be hundred times magnified but you choose to ignore that. You choose to ignore your life and your purpose, and keep reading book after book after book because real life, is fucking terrible in all its beauty.”
Then Jester did something horrible. He took the book from Lisa's hand and threw it away as hard as it could.
Lisa's eyes went wide and lower lip quivered.
“That was extremely rude of you, Mr. J. I wish I could unhear those words but they'll stay with me till the day I die.”
Jester simply rolled his eyes. “It's just books, why'd get your emotions in a tangle over a bunch of words on paper.”
“Because to some of us, those words are life!”
“Life? Life is not in the books! Life is outside the books! You're living second hand through the books. Burn your books today and get out of the house and do non book things! Live, for fuck's sake!”
“I don't believe a single word you say. You're not going to convince me to whatever is on your mind. I need my books and I am going to get them one way or the other. Once the Mongrifier gets the card from that perverted man, I'll be on my way and we'll never see each other again.”
“Who the hell said I wanted to see you again, you deluded woman.”
“Oh, you would when one day you need to read a book and there is no one you know who'd tell you the right book to read. You'll be crawling on your knees to the steps of my library and I'd tell you to shut the fuck up and crawl back to whichever hole you dropped from.”
Jester was about to retort when the air behind Lisa blurred and the large form of the Mongrifier emerged from the blurring air.
“Ah, I see the puppy is back.” Jester smiled at the shape.
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