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[acaseofyou]

He was a singularly entertainable kind of man.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to finding opportunities for puns to give to you.

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Did he have to go to war as well?

[acaseofyou]

No. He'd got called up, right after I was born, but having factory work kept him home.

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Good for your family, it sounds like.

[acaseofyou]

It was. For other people, too. Growing up he had a lot of friends, guess they hadn't gotten out of service like he had. They came back worse for wear, and he'd go out and find 'em union work either in the mills with him or down in Bangor.

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Trying to take care of those around him, I’m starting to see a trend.

[acaseofyou]

Ha, true. I learned from the best. He's the one that gave me my first IWW songbook, too.

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That’s very sweet. Sounds like he raised you right. Do you still have it?

[acaseofyou]

I do, though I don't bring it out much. Don't want it falling apart on me, so I carry around a newer edition I bought a few years ago.

[noreasonneeded]

I don’t fault you for wanting to preserve it. I’d be curious if the later translations changed anything.

[acaseofyou]

There's a few lyric changes that I noticed. Mostly it's just additions, songs and verses both. I'll have to show you sometime.

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I’d like to see it, yeah. I enjoy seeing what changes over different editions of things. I’ve actually never seen any of it, so it’ll be a first either way. I think the closest I've ever come to reading a song book was an old Kerch nursery rhyme book.

[acaseofyou]

I'll bring them both by the Slat next time I have a chance. There's notes in the margins, but you can ignore those, it's just my noodling about guitar chords or my own word changes.

Do you still have the Kerch nursery rhymes?

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What if I want to read your amendments? Or would that make you uncomfortable?

I don’t have any books left from back then, no. I have them all memorized, so there is that. Not the same, but it's something.

[acaseofyou]

You're very welcome to it. Some just might not make much sense, or be entirely legible.

Sometimes the book itself doesn't matter so much. Would you tell some to me, sometime, though? I'd like to hear them. Won't put you on a stage for it or anything.

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[OOC: Work has kicked me this week, but I will get to our longer tags this weekend.]

Chicken scratch handwriting or just shorthand only you know?

As long as a stage isn’t involved, sure. The morals found in them are different than in some others I’ve come across from other places. Hoarding profit isn’t really looked down upon here. There’s more tales of the peasant making his own fortune than realizing his true treasure was his morals all along.

[acaseofyou]

[ ooc: friend there are no worries, i'm also kicked, you're golden. take all the kick-recovery time you need. ]

The notes about guitar tabs might be a little more esoteric for you than strict shorthand. Otherwise it's chicken scratch.

No stages no lights, I promise. And they certainly sound very different. I figured that might be the case, but it'll be something else hearing it all folk-tale-like instead of thinking of it in theory.

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Were you ever told that you should be a doctor because of your chicken scratch writing?

Phrasing does make a difference. And not all the messages are terrible. I actually agree with the ones that are against monarchies and the privilege of ruling being passed down. It's just hypocritical in practice, given how the Council operates. It's really not a merit-based oligarchy.

[acaseofyou]

Oh, hell no. Don't figure anyone wanted me near their vitals no matter how much my handwriting may have fit the bill.

You'll have to tell me those ones, first. And merit-based oligarchies feel like a double negative.

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I really only judge handwriting by how easy or difficult it is to forge.

Pretty much. Merit is always substituted for money, and how one makes it is more at the expense of others.

[acaseofyou]

Then I await your judgement of how forgeable my handwriting is.

It's how things tend to shake out when the profit of one is valued over the well being of all. No one thinks you can have success and then split the profits from it with the workers that gave it to you.

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Odds are in your favor, I'm fairly decent at forging these days.

Indeed. It's often just met with some sort of 'pulling one's self up by their bootstraps' line about how everyone should make their own fortunes without any aid, disavowing the uneven playing field and advantages to start.

I always look forward to stripping them of their fortunes and daring them to then prove their points.

[acaseofyou]

Good to know, if I ever need to fake my own documents.

If they acknowledged any of that, they'd have to admit that they aren't as skilled or as clever as they want everyone to think they are. And that, at any point, would be bad for their bottom line.

You know I'm always happy to help with that if you need it.

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I might even give you a discount.

Which is why it’s all the better to hang them out to dry in public where they can’t hide.

I always keep you in mind these days. I will as long as you’re around and willing.

[acaseofyou]

How very kind of you.

Good thing I've got so much experience with bringing people up on stages, huh?

Would it be weird to tell you I'm planning to stay around for a while? Or, I guess, a while by my standards.