(no subject)

[chiastic]

Name: un: PXW
Date: Feb 13
Format: Text

[Anyway.]

WANTED-- Lodging in a respectable rooming or boarding house, with a strong desire for the latter. The following accommodations must be met: No animals kept indoors; No children; No fellow tenants who might be susceptible to the vices of liquor, betting, or marriage. The room must be clean, quiet, private, and immediately available. A locking door is most preferable.

Prospective tenant is an educated man of science accustomed to long hours, with little taste for parlor games.

Make your reply here. References to be waived for the sake of expediency and convenience ONLY, and may be requested upon inspection of the premises.

Comments

[chiastic]

Minor adjustments, I assure you. Shelving there - more easily hung than bracketed to a foundation like this one. [For emphasis, he knocks his knuckles against the old stone wall.] And of course, a good sturdy hook. But I won't trouble you with the details of that. It isn't for the squeamish, and we've agreed already that I keep my business contained.

[supersoldier]

[And thus he is hit with the vaguely frustrating notion of not wanting to know, versus his imagination now kicked into a higher gear at the mention of a hook and something not to be minded by the squeamish.

Dry, so dry-]

I’m not going to be hearing errant screams from the basement, am I?

[chiastic]

Ha! [It isn't a pleasant kind of humor, but that must be what it is.] Please, sir. I am a scientist, not a butcher.

[supersoldier]

That might be so.

[That might be so, but he wonders if a scientist is just more scholarly, sometimes-subtle form of a butcher, working at the genetic level.

He could just be, you know. Biased.]

But the imagery doesn’t inspire very much confidence.

[chiastic]

I doubt the finnicky details of most professions would, Mr. Sephiroth. Not to worry; the sausage I produce is all destined for quarterlies and conferences, and you won't have to see it being made in any case.

[The light is taken, and the basement door drawn shut as if the click of the latch will act as some endpoint to the question of his business.]

This is all perfectly adequate.