Aereopagitica, Tuesday Morning...

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Aereopagitica is open. Giles is at the counter, still working on the Matthew Paris...

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[heterodine.livejournal.com]

Agatha dropped in early, before opening her store.

"Hi! It only seems like i am here every day!" She grinned. "Do you sell dictionaries?"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles was pleased to see someone who was swiftly becoming his best customer.

"Ah, yes! Over in the reference section," Giles pointed around the corner. There are several dictionaries: standard, quote, reverse, and several demon foreign languages. If you need anything in particular and can't find it, just let me know."

[heterodine.livejournal.com]

"I jsut need a regular modern dictionary. I am finding there are terms that did not exist where i am from that have since been invented, and i want to be able to reference them." She picked up a really really really big book with tiny tiny print. "Is this one any good? It is named after a town i have heard of."


[ooc: why yes, she did pick up the OED, 2 volume edition that comes with a magnifying glass]

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Ooh. Agatha's got good taste.]

"That one is outstanding. It is one of the most authoratative dictionaries on the market today. You might find it a bit unwieldy, though. Giles took the Concise Oxford English Dictionary off of a a higher shelf.

"You might find this version somewhat more convenient and manageable."

[superartie]

Because even the strongest man . . . in the world knows the value of reading, Artie comes bounding into the shop. He stops before the checkout counter and poses.

'Cause, you know, that's what he does.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles blinked.

Twice.

Cleaned his glasses.

Looked again.

Cleaned the glasses again, just to be sure.

He finally accepted the inevitable, and, looking over the tops of those very clean glasses, asked the man, "And, ah, how may I help...you?"

[superartie]

Artie grinned. "I have come for books!"

He didn't elaborate.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Yes, well, we have those here." Giles smiled, hopefully reassuringly, at the strange man in the loud shirt. "Is there one in particular you would like?"

[jarodpretends.livejournal.com]

It being too early to contact Sydney to ask him to explain about women, Jarod decided some new reading material was in order. He entered the shop and looked around--it had changed a bit since Mr. Phale had left, and Kiki and Marty didn't appear to be around.

He began to browse the shelves.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles called to the young man who was browsing, "If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know."

[jarodpretends.livejournal.com]

"Are you new in town?" Jarod wandered over, usually in the mood to be sociable. "I was looking for some 'how to' books on sailing, and some good fiction."

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Alfred, having some time before he opened the Cafe, decided he'd visit some of the newer stores in town. He entered the store and nodded to the man he assumed to be the owner.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles solemnly nodded back. "If there's anything I can help you with, sir, please don't hesitate to let me know."

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

"I will," Alfred replied. "So, are you from Britania as well? Your accent sounds like you should be from somewhere around Oxford."

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles brightened. "Yes. Actually, I'm from London, but I've spent a great deal of time in Oxford. Took a degree from Grayfriars.

"Where are you from, sir?" Giles sensed a kindred spirit in the older man before him.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia came in in the afternoon, looking a little shocked at the volume of books.

She would have just gotten the book she needed from the library, but she figured she'd be wanting to write notes all over it, and thus should have her own copy.

"Hi," she said, a little absently, when she spotted someone who probably worked there. "I need a copy of . . ." she dug out her notebook. "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Shakespeare?" Giles looked up. "That entire shelf over there," Giles pointed to the left hand side of the shop, "is the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon. You should find several copies of Midsummer."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia looked where he was pointing and nodded. "Thanks." She started over and then paused. "Shakespeare didn't really write a play about a lobster, the tooth fairy, and Chuck Norris, did he?"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles's brow furrowed. "Lobster? Chuck Norris? The Tooth Fairy?"

[ascended-being.livejournal.com]

Orlin came in looking for a book of maps, and something interesting to read. He had no preference, just needed something to read during his trip.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

[[ooc: would the shop still be open around 3'ish?

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

After 6th Period

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi walked into the shop and approached the first living person she saw.

That person may even work at the shop.

"Hello, I need a book. Of a play... But I keep forgetting the name. It has something to do with dreams... And summer."

Re: After 6th Period

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Ah! A Midsummer Night's Dream, perhaps?"

Re: After 6th Period

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yes! That's the one." she clapped her hands the way young girls in old books do when they are particularly pleased.

What a smart man, that must be why he runs a bookstore!

"We putting that play on at the school, and I figured I should read it."