:23:01
There!
:23:08
Don't irritate it!
:23:10
- What is it?
- Just a sphinx.
:23:12
- Throw it a book.
- What?
:23:14
- Throw it a book, it likes books.
- Okay.
:23:17
Finders Keepers by Joe Grey...
:23:19
A Short History of Future Fruit
by Douglas Prawnead.
:23:22
Anything, it's not going to read it!
:23:37
Right. Not a disaster. Okay.
:23:41
Think. Okay,
grab a couple of really big books!
:23:46
Okay.
:23:52
- Throw it on the floor.
- But why? I like books.
:23:55
Please, come on.
:23:57
No, useless.
:23:59
It's really got to feel like it's being rejected.
:24:01
Horrible, offensive, badly constructed book.
:24:13
Right.
:24:15
Nasty poorly paced book...
:24:17
with a soppy ending
that I didn't believe in for one minute!
:24:37
- How does this work?
- So long as they think you don't like them...
:24:41
they migrate back to the city library
and we get a free ride out of this hole.