View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
+ Show First Post
fabulous_ones
I'm too much of a Philistine to get any but the least obscure Bible references.
I don't think that in particular is a mark of poor taste; I read the Bible over the summer when I was eight. I'm not fond of the associated theology but as a work of literature I appreciated it. My sister, on the other hand, tried it and condemned it as too dry.
fabulous_ones
I agree with her! I like old literature but I think reasons other than its quality as a work of fiction are really inflating Biblical sales, here.
fabulous_ones
Faith sometimes quotes them, but I don't know if they're less pretty all strung together, or for that matter more coherent if you get more than a sentence at a time.
The Bible is very different when reading it than when being screamed at by preachers.
fabulous_ones
You have questionable taste.
I will have to examine myself for begats.
fabulous_ones
I'm even more bewildered that you enjoyed begats as a small child but at least I don't have to check my seams for them!
It was--straightforward delivery of salient information. It could have been formatted better but it just didn't occur to me that there was anything wrong with it.
Mind, this was in the interval between Mother's death and Father's remarriage, when we had a nanny, and the nanny refused to let us have any books that weren't "age appropriate" so I was somewhat starved for intelligent reading material.
My stepmother is terrible but fortunately when it comes to the day to day details of how Jaromira and I live our lives she tends more towards neglect than repression, even when we live in the same house as her.
fabulous_ones
Ah, neglect. So useful in its way.
Renee (if this thing can type special characters idk how) isn't neglectful but she's scatterbrained, which isn't totally dissimilar.