Tourist ROAD TRIP (mingle)

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Touristas and visitors
Broadcast: as needed
Action: The Tourist!
When: The month of June

[ Get bit by the June Bug and mingle to your heart's content! ]

Comments

[passingthrough]

I'll keep that in mind. [She looks amused, but it turns to interest.] What kind? [Less because she has any intention of getting him one and more because she also likes non-fiction books. Well, she likes fiction sometimes too, but she's been more interested in non.]

[universal_charm]

History, mostly, but I like true-crime or biographies too.

[passingthrough]

Hmm. I'm trying to decide if that surprises me. I think it might. Not the true crime so much but the rest. I thought you'd go for action or mysteries.

[universal_charm]

Hah, well, my life is kind of an action novel and I hate mysteries.

History has a lot to teach us, and I think it's important to know where you came from. And of course reading more in depth on the people in history is always fun.

[passingthrough]

Hate mysteries? Actual hate? Huh. I'm not sure what to make of that. [But she looks at him curiously as if this will sort it out for her.]

But okay, I'll buy the history thing. Probably also helps with people here.

[universal_charm]

Well, to a degree. I like the notion of there being things to discover as a sort of mystery, but things like murder mysteries? Not for me.

Yeah, it can, but in general I like it. It's a good thing to know where you've come from, so you learn what to do right, and what not to repeat.

[passingthrough]

I used to be with someone who solved murder mysteries for a living. Interesting stuff. But I can see not wanting it in your fiction.

My grandpa used to talk about things from his past a lot for that reason. The history reasons.

[universal_charm]

I like things being solved, I should say. I don't like it when we can't get answers, you know?

They're important. They have a lot to teach us - both warnings as well as lessons of hope and perseverance.

[passingthrough]

Don't the answers fall into place in mystery novels though? Everything wrapped up with a neat bow by the end. Sherlock leaving no stone unexplained. [Stones require lots of explaining, okay?]

Shades of things to come. [Hitler was minor leagues compared to Apocalypse who spread a much larger net for genocide, experimentation, and devastation.]