[ How long until Matt guesses indeed? He has more experience with demons than most where he comes from, but there's a few confounding factors in the way. Mainly, the differences between demons from world to world, and Matt's WASPy reticence around asking personal questions. For the moment, he beams as he flips through the book. ]
Western world, [ Matt repeats thoughtfully. ] So uh, any chance of Les Fleurs du Mal, by Baudelaire? [ It takes slight effort to make the words come out French, rather than what they all speak here, but once he manages that, Matt's pronunciation is pretty good. ] Or ... what about the Atharvaveda? [ A wistful expression has come over his face now. ] It's obviously not Western, but I only ever read it in translation anyway. Ralph T.H. Griffith, late 1800s. I've memorized portions of it--Les Fleurs du Mal too--but never the whole thing.
It's amazing that you remember everything. It ... made me really sad to think all of that died with my world.
[ Speaking of WASPs, this is an understatement. Matt's not a literature person precisely, but the loss of poetry and spiritual works, the occultism and esoteric knowledge of his entire world's history--he's grieved that like death. ]
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Western world, [ Matt repeats thoughtfully. ] So uh, any chance of Les Fleurs du Mal, by Baudelaire? [ It takes slight effort to make the words come out French, rather than what they all speak here, but once he manages that, Matt's pronunciation is pretty good. ] Or ... what about the Atharvaveda? [ A wistful expression has come over his face now. ] It's obviously not Western, but I only ever read it in translation anyway. Ralph T.H. Griffith, late 1800s. I've memorized portions of it--Les Fleurs du Mal too--but never the whole thing.
It's amazing that you remember everything. It ... made me really sad to think all of that died with my world.
[ Speaking of WASPs, this is an understatement. Matt's not a literature person precisely, but the loss of poetry and spiritual works, the occultism and esoteric knowledge of his entire world's history--he's grieved that like death. ]