For the Record
10 March 2015 18:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merryeccentricitiesJoly is sprawled across the blue room's sofa and, as is generally the case lately, trying to understand one of the more essential points of post-1832 medical science-- this time,something about genetic mutations-- and taking notes on the current book to find other useful books later.
Which is why he notices, as he sometimes has before, someone's journal being cited. In a context which, he has become aware, means not at all the same thing as when he says the word. Something like personal notebooks, rather than shared public records. He frowns a little, makes a note to look it up-- as nosy as that seems-- and goes on reading.
And comes across the mention of another such journal, a few pages later.
He pauses, and bites his lip for a minute. And then, trying to sound very casual, calls out to Bossuet. "My handwriting is generally very hard to read, isn't it? Illegible, maybe?"
...Hopefully?
Which is why he notices, as he sometimes has before, someone's journal being cited. In a context which, he has become aware, means not at all the same thing as when he says the word. Something like personal notebooks, rather than shared public records. He frowns a little, makes a note to look it up-- as nosy as that seems-- and goes on reading.
And comes across the mention of another such journal, a few pages later.
He pauses, and bites his lip for a minute. And then, trying to sound very casual, calls out to Bossuet. "My handwriting is generally very hard to read, isn't it? Illegible, maybe?"
...Hopefully?