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[enlistments]

My dear Tranquility, if you would be so kind as to indulge me in another question - quite different from my last one but no less genuine.

[Something milder than anger flashes in Ichabod's eyes. He tucks a strand of long hair behind his ear before continuing.]

Is there anyone who thinks that these trousers, these...so-called skinny jeans are appropriate for a grown man!

[He holds them up, giving them a shake. See how angry they make him!!!]

Why the ship would choose to gift them to me can be nothing more than a cruel jest, but if anyone should like to have them, for whatever reason, you may collect them from me at once.

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[enlistments]

Let's hope that their armies aren't uniformed in them. Though most that I've seen wearing them probably only know combat through their entertainment boxes.

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[vindictam]

Entertainment boxes?

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[enlistments]

Sorry, the televisions - tee-vees. An enormous waste of time.

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[vindictam]

I have never seen one before. Is it like novels?

[ Something of a ladies trifle, but nothing more serious than that. ]

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[enlistments]

A novel made of moving pictures. I find them to engage the mind and the imagination far less than reading.

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[vindictam]

Like images appear on... these devices? That tell stories?

If they are so dull, why are they so common?

[ because Ichabod isn't the first he's heard speak of them, but it's the first time he's gotten an explanation. ]

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[enlistments]

the modern world seems obsessed with convenience above all else.

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[vindictam]

I am glad I am not the only one to think so.

[ It amused him very privately to find that he could sew, and women he knew of here, could not. ]