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[celestial_mongoose]

It truly is a travesty when one steps into a home devoid of not just literature, but books in general. Now amplify that horror times ten thousand, and you might have a small idea of the feeling that awaited me when I stepped into what passes for a library here. What in the world could possess a library to not even carry the classics? How can it even call itself a library? It’s disgusting and disgraceful, and it breaks my heart that I cannot retrieve my own collection.

Oh Lord.

I haven’t got my book collection. Not a single one. I… I don’t know what to do with myself. Not a single copy of Wilde, or Dante… No bibles either. How do you natives handle such emptiness?

Nevermind the nonsense those silly people had told me at the office, this is an actual emergency!

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[icanbuyafez]

[The Doctor looks bemused, as he had this conversation just a few weeks ago.]

Well, if you're looking for books, I happen to own several private libraries, if you'd care to take a look.

[celestial_mongoose]

It's not just books, my good man. But rather, my books.

So many years of collecting... all wasted and for naught.

[icanbuyafez]

I understand. But someone else's books are better than nothing, wouldn't you say? I've certainly got the classics. From several different galaxies, even!

[celestial_mongoose]

Surely you jest.

[icanbuyafez]

[The Doctor grins.]

Why don't you come take a look at my time machine and find out for yourself?!

[just_cause]

There are more important issues at hand, here.

[celestial_mongoose]

Perhaps. None that matter to me, however.

[just_cause]

We are trapped on this island while our siblings prepare for the final battle, and with demons among us, no less, and you are worrying yourself over books?

[celestial_mongoose]

'Siblings...'?

Oh, gracious. I thought that I'd felt something familiar. Good. Well, that's one less existential crisis on my mind.

What do you mean by 'demons', old boy?

[hunting_trip]

You and me have two very different ideas about what constitutes an emergency.

[Sam, on the other hand, might be more inclined to agree.

Nerds. He shakes his head.]

You want religion, though, I know a dude that can probably recite the bible for you.