JL Kaufmann
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jlkaufmann.bsky.social
And I should go the heckitty hecking heck to actual bed right now this minute.
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Seventeen? I've only got tracking data for fourteen.

How are there seventeen?

Premee?
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Well...

*looks at own Pilot*

no
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Quiara stop tormenting the poor man.

*clicks through*

ooooh
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How can one be a proper Shakespeare nerd if one does not caress the spines?
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*nods* yep got that one.
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I've just realised I have three versions of Beowulf.

JRR Tolkien would be proud of me.
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Got him! And reeled him in!
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Right? Also some of them are FRAGILE. They need to be LOVED.
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WE MIGHT QUOTE HENRY V AT YOU EXTEMPORE!
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I... I could give some of these away? *flinches*
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I have the Complete Works that belonged to my grandpapa. And then all the annotated New Cambridge and Arden editions of individual plays from my uni days. And a random collection of individual everyman editions. And the OTHER Complete Works which is the working copy because it's not an heirloom.
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At the moment the plan is 'Scottish castle on island, part library, part animal sanctuary, with ballistas on the battlements facing the mainland.
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*Looks at the Shakespeare shelf* ohhhhhh solidarity
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*floor creaks ominously*
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Oh, hey, why is Ensign Delgado hanging from the light fixture in the med-bay and screaming 'GET IT OFF ME?'...

Never mind. I'll just... anyway.
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*points silently at four copies of LOTR (one illustrated), two Hobbits, three Earthsea Quartets...*