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Hello.
When I was extracted, I was allowed to bring with me some things. As far as things can be brought.
In this case, I have a few books.
"Books."
I hear their raw code can be good for trading so I am probably decreasing a little their value by sharing them like this but I don't think everyone uses this network all the time, so take them for that if you like. Or to just read. If you would like the "books" themselves in simulation let me know. I like them better that way too and I don't mind providing copies if you like to store/keep that kind of code.
Which is very strange that that can be done to paperbacks, isn't it?
Here is a little bit of a poem from a time where automobiles were the harbingers of the waste land. It is long so I will share just this small part that I like.

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

If anyone has anything like this (not just from Earthish places), I'd like to see (and can trade if you prefer). But I understand there are probably some rules about that here.

[ Unlike, potentially, in Kosala. ]

I don't have much more than what I have shared already but I hope you enjoy it. :)

[ Attached are a few books, stripped from its digitalised form into a more accessible e-book type format pared down to the text, including the rest of TS Eliot's The Waste Land, along with The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, some other less recognisable titles that don't break any fourth walls I hope, and the text of a wildlife encyclopaedia that seemed handy to have too. ]

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I'd like the code for simulation.

of course
I will need to know who this is because I can't compress the data for network transfer
either I can hand it to you physically or at least tell staff at a sim station who to expect

[ She thinks about that a moment, chewing on her lip, then decides the former option is probably quicker and safer. She's being cautious because the persona she's built up wouldn't have interest in literature; her public face is bubbly and a little airheaded. She just needs some other face to pick up these books. ]

On level 39, there's a plaque celebrating the formation of the Council. I can meet you there sometime in the next eight hours.

alright :)
call it 2?

OH
OHHHHHHH

is this what you were doing instead of coming 2 my parties

yes I am far too busy reading turn of the century poetry for such things!!!

UGHHHHHHG

well will you come to this one at least for like half an hour

plsss

the little baby crews will b there maybe you can con them into getting matching team tattoos or something

they wont know any better

very compelling but I am not much of a hustler
why do you think I got a real job? :)

what if I just come to your party

Okkkkkk

good deal

fucking sweet

moving is really expensive huh

in a way
it didn't cost anything but I feel like I'm new again

thats because we were submerged our whole lives until recently
no weather and bad stuff on your skin
and you take really good care of yourself on a low budget!

[take the complIMENT TAKE IT]

oh William that's not what I meant at all

really>
is it something bad

That's a beautiful excerpt. I would be interested in learning more about the literature of your time.

What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal

from the same poem, it is called the Waste Land
and it would probably be incorrect for me to say it's from my time
a lot of these books/poems are from 100 years ago (for me
longer, here, if they ever existed at all)

but they are what I read and what I had to read and I like them just fine
what kind of things would you like to know?

[ She forwards on the whole text. ]

why do you like it?

the poem has a lot of different voices
all saying the same thing or trying to complete the same vision
I like this voice
it's a little sinister and it sounds like what it is wanting to say
and the part where it breaks over 'Only - there is a shadow'

[ That last sentence is not super clear but she doesn't analyse her own taste in literature very closely. ]

do you like it?

i don't know

[ but, eventually, ]

it sounds like what it is wanting to say
but it doesn't just say it
makes it hard to hold onto what it means
but a lot of things are like that

[ Thedas poetry is truly, truly rubbish: there's limericks, poor man's haiku, and Paragon Seuss if you're a dwarf. Everyone tends to keep the best lyricism to song, which is either rhyming, or in another language, or both. Certainly there is nothing like Eliot, stark and evocative, the repetition striking like thrown stones. ]

That was certainly something.

I'd also like the code for simulation.

[ He can add books to his kitten petting sim and just never come out. ]

I can leave it for you at Mirage or the other one if you prefer
I will apologise ahead of time for all of the dog-earing the book went through

The other one, thank you.

I know your intention isn't trade, but if you ever need medical assistance, let me know.

I wouldn't say no :) thank you too
what's your name?

Anders.

Benji

Hi, thank you for sharing. I'd love copies of all of these, and in return I can offer a few of my own if you're interested:

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Ariel, Sylvia Plath

Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Odyssey, Homer

Given what you have here I'm not sure if they'd be to your taste, but I've also got this collection of Estelle Stone mysteries by Sandri Newhardt if you'd like something a little lighter.

you're welcome. I am going to leave the codes for them at the Mirage, I can refer your number to them if you'd like to pick them up there
I am very interested! I have read a little Plath but I don't remember any. I've always liked the idea of libraries.

and I would appreciate a little lighter too
when I took these with me, I was in a hurry, so I tried to get the ones that seemed like they might be important
little did I know :)

That would be great, thank you. I can leave mine there for you when I pick them up. I'll leave the mysteries, too. They're not great literature, but they're fun.

I didn't take any with me when I was unplugged but I've been collecting since. A library would be great, you should consider starting one. I don't have the time to do it myself but I'd definitely support someone else's effort.

I've never actually set foot in one before. maybe now's the time, even if it's not real.
you're an operative? or do you trade for books?

You should! Libraries are great. I have a couple favorite virtual ones actually, I can leave the program numbers with the books if you'd like.

Both. Technically a former operative; I'm now captain of the Atalanta.

How were you allowed to do that?

the crew that took me out of my matrix gave me the chance to do so
but they weren't ZDG
it was a civilian ship based in Kosala

I don't know, I suppose that might be the difference

[They can do that? seems way too idiot and naive a question even if that's the first thing he thinks. Wow.]

What did civilians from Kosala want with you?

they wanted me to be a civilian of Kosala too
I have a background in rebel freedom fighting village nations

what did the ZDG want with you?

I'll tell you when I figure that out. Pretty new to this destiny thing that everyone goes for.

[Kind of.]

Think there's a lot of extractions that go purposefully?

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