lavi glances away, not fast enough to show how much that request gets to him -- maybe more than the apologies and the well-wishes and the hopes that his death will at least be peaceful. it's scarier, he thinks, to be known.
but he's going to die tomorrow. if he's going to run away, then he can do it then.]
Something I want to be remembered, huh... [hmmm...] I've had forty nine different names, and Lavi's my most recent one. My real title's Bookman Junior.
[he's a writer. of course this is the kind of thing he wants to know; death can't be changed, but they can affect what comes after it. what's left behind, what's recalled.]
Forty-nine...? At your age? You go through them quickly.
...all right, I think I might forgive you for comparing me to him, before.
[he manages a little faint amusement at that, shaking his head.]
A spectator and recorder-- you're a form of author in your own right.
[not for the first time so far, he wishes they weren't having this conversation now. he's going to have so many questions; there's a lot he knows he'd have liked to talk about, just from this much.]
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lavi glances away, not fast enough to show how much that request gets to him -- maybe more than the apologies and the well-wishes and the hopes that his death will at least be peaceful. it's scarier, he thinks, to be known.
but he's going to die tomorrow. if he's going to run away, then he can do it then.]
Something I want to be remembered, huh... [hmmm...] I've had forty nine different names, and Lavi's my most recent one. My real title's Bookman Junior.
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Forty-nine...? At your age? You go through them quickly.
[how many names a year is that?]
What does the title mean?
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[wow, that conversation feels like ages ago...]
`The Bookman is a spectator to history, and its chronicler. He records the secret history of the world and passes it on to future generations.`
We're all part of a bigger clan, but the rest of us exist to support the current Bookman. I was supposed to take over his job.
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[he manages a little faint amusement at that, shaking his head.]
A spectator and recorder-- you're a form of author in your own right.
[not for the first time so far, he wishes they weren't having this conversation now. he's going to have so many questions; there's a lot he knows he'd have liked to talk about, just from this much.]