[Not all, he says, but “a lot” of the volumes she’d seen just in his living room still seemed like an overwhelming amount to a woman who had been raised in a world where paper was precious and only the nobility and the rich were educated. Hair “fixed” she withdraws her hand… but it hovers close on the mattress, still, like it was just ready for some other excuse.]
What good does it do to read about worlds you will never see… ?
[She only knew how to read her name and a few of the most basic words, which she recognized by the shape of the kanji character more than actual “reading”.]
Or is it… “for fun”?
[It made the concept of reading for pleasure a bit difficult to grasp for her. Liem read often from the holy book she’d returned to him, she knew, but that served a bit of a religious purpose, and Claude…. Was his curiosity simply endless?]
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What good does it do to read about worlds you will never see… ?
[She only knew how to read her name and a few of the most basic words, which she recognized by the shape of the kanji character more than actual “reading”.]
Or is it… “for fun”?
[It made the concept of reading for pleasure a bit difficult to grasp for her. Liem read often from the holy book she’d returned to him, she knew, but that served a bit of a religious purpose, and Claude…. Was his curiosity simply endless?]