Hanukkah 4: Take Five
Dec. 18th, 2006 06:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valmoraSo I'm posting this barely after dawn. So sue me. Actually, if you're Terry Pratchett or his lawyer, please don't. Or if you're Kubo Tite or his lawyer. Since I don't own these characters and whatnot.
The Library of the Gotei Thirteen is a greater thing than many know; it is connected not only to Seireitei and all of Soul Society but also to the human world, to all the places in the five worlds that are capable of creation.
It is, therefore, Jyuushirou’s duty to see that all the things meant for a Library stay there, protected from others or others protected from them, depending on their purposes – and that is why the Library sometimes stinks of old blood, the greater books remembering past exploitations of men.
But the human music, oh! The new sort – the old sort, recorded as sound on the thin thin whispering silver of memory and time, are hidden in the back – that comes from the human world, that gives him a strange sort of joy.
He takes the storage devices to Kyouraku and bids him listen, the two of them on the floor of Kyouraku’s office, Kyouraku spread across the wood-paneling of the floor and Jyuushirou seated neatly, as the sound pours into the air.
“I could dance to it if I had five feet,” Kyouraku says, whimsically, his fingers twitching, and Jyuushirou can almost hear his own heart beating in time with the music, one-two-three-four-five, uneven and ragged and swaying through the notes, giving itself up to the rhythm.
He returns the device to the Library the next morning, but not to the shelf – never to the shelf; he could not bear it. To his desk, to pull out sometimes, just to listen. To remember that this place is not just duty to Seireitei but also to the humans, and that to be master of the Library is to have the history of all the world.
The Library of the Gotei Thirteen is a greater thing than many know; it is connected not only to Seireitei and all of Soul Society but also to the human world, to all the places in the five worlds that are capable of creation.
It is, therefore, Jyuushirou’s duty to see that all the things meant for a Library stay there, protected from others or others protected from them, depending on their purposes – and that is why the Library sometimes stinks of old blood, the greater books remembering past exploitations of men.
But the human music, oh! The new sort – the old sort, recorded as sound on the thin thin whispering silver of memory and time, are hidden in the back – that comes from the human world, that gives him a strange sort of joy.
He takes the storage devices to Kyouraku and bids him listen, the two of them on the floor of Kyouraku’s office, Kyouraku spread across the wood-paneling of the floor and Jyuushirou seated neatly, as the sound pours into the air.
“I could dance to it if I had five feet,” Kyouraku says, whimsically, his fingers twitching, and Jyuushirou can almost hear his own heart beating in time with the music, one-two-three-four-five, uneven and ragged and swaying through the notes, giving itself up to the rhythm.
He returns the device to the Library the next morning, but not to the shelf – never to the shelf; he could not bear it. To his desk, to pull out sometimes, just to listen. To remember that this place is not just duty to Seireitei but also to the humans, and that to be master of the Library is to have the history of all the world.
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Date: 2006-12-24 01:14 am (UTC)Favourite line, hands down. It must be wonderful to have so much knowledge of times past at your fingertips, to be able to dip in to so many ages, so many cultures, as you please. It hints at limitless potential even though the setting is so intimate and close.
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Date: 2006-12-24 07:47 am (UTC)Yes, I think it would. That's why I love Jyuushirou, as a character, so much. I love what he does.
My secret ambition is to ravish a librarian. XDAnd I'm glad you liked that line in particular, because I always try to get my last lines really striking.no subject
Date: 2006-12-24 03:02 pm (UTC)It was an excellent last line, though I do admit that on first glance I misread it as "to be master of the Library is to be master of all the world".
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:28 pm (UTC)By the time I am of age to realistically consider the ravishing I will probably be the same age as many of those librarians, and it will be okay.
Also, there's this one librarian at my school who's kind of youngish and quite handsome. He's married with kids who are probably almost my age, though, so no go.on first glance I misread it
Ah, yes. Well. Same thing, isn't it, sometimes? =D (coughnapoleonrussiacough)