Day 30: Patient Library (Fourth Shift)

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While he waited for his bulletin board correspondant, Farfarello perused the library's offerings once more. There was no sign of any of the books he'd requested in the suggestion box but he wasn't very suprised that this was the case--even if, by some chance, the Head Doctor actually intended to grant any of the reasonable requests it still would probably take more than a day for anything to happen. The wheels turned slowly, in institutions, and there was no reason for a fake institution to be any speedier than a real one.

For lack of anything better, Farfarello pulled down the Histories volume of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. A little Richard III would keep him diverted for a short while, anyway.

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When someone came to sit down near him, Peter was expecting the man to start up a conversation. He had seen him around before, but knew nothing more about him than what he looked like.

He glanced over at what he was reading for a moment before glancing back down to Moby Dick. The reading was pretty dense and there was no way he was going to be able to get past the first few chapters, but he was surprised that he had never had it assigned to him in high school.

It looked like the other patient was content enough with reading, and considering that was what the library was for, Peter kept on with his book and chose not to speak up.