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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:10 am
Miyu thought about it, she couldn't recall seeing him do so. After a while she shook her head.
"I think he's too busy learning how to read and then I think he'll be too busy reading."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:21 am
Aragost chuckled again. "Well, it is important to learn how to read," he agreed softly. "After all ... it is the quickest way to learn new things ... to gain worlds of knowledge ... and of course to pass on what you know ... to others ..."
He smiled down at her. "Do you like to read, Miyu?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:27 am
Miyu thought about it, she was becoming quite old for a Second, so she had a pretty good grasp of reading and writing. She had read some very good books, some were informative and others were just for fun.
"I like reading.... though I like to read certain things."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:30 am
Aragost smiled and nodded. He had thought that Gaia was a literate place, and the more he heard of it the more his guess was confirmed.
"What do you prefer to read?" he asked Miyu softly.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:34 am
"Uhm..... things about the sky," Miyu replied, "And the water, that's interesting too. There's a book that Uncle Yukito have that has pictures and writing about the moon and tides."
She thought about what else did she like to read.
"And old folk tales... they're interesting too. Sometimes I read some of Mia's books that have pictures and words, because they're very pretty."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:37 am
"I see," Aragost smiled. "And do you learn a lot from what you read?"
That after all was the point of reading, was it not?
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:42 am
"Hmm... most of the time," Miyu murmured thinking back on the books about the sky, "I don't know about Mia's books, but they are nice stories, and sometimes I like to be shown rather than read it. It's easier to be shown rather than reading it, and sometimes it is more interesting."
It was one thing to read something about a star, but to see it for yourself, that was different.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:47 am
Aragost nodded thoughtfully.
"And yet not all things can be shown," he murmured softly. "There are things ... that can only be told about, or read about ... that can never be seen ... that ought never to be seen."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:52 am
"What do you like to read Yami-san?" Miyu asked.
For she had taken for granted that books were common, that people wrote about anything and everything. That ideas were put into stories that were pure fiction.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:57 am
Aragost was taken completely by surprise by that question. He had not been expecting it at all. And how could he answer it? After all, as he said, reading was to expand your knowledge. But if you have seen the stars being placed in the sky, if you were the first person created and know the Valar personally, if you watched your world being formed, if you lived through all of the wars, and all of the history, if you have been everywhere in this world, if you have done all that there is to do, then what is there left to read about?
"I ..."
He racked his brain, trying to think of something, anything that he could tell her. But truth be told, over and above his lack of need for reading, where would he get books to read? It didn't mean that he didn't like it, he just ... didn't read.
He looked down at Miyu helplessly, for the first time in his life truly at a loss for an answer to give.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:02 am
She hadn't realized it was a difficult question, but even with his cowl on, she could tell that she had caught him completely off guard. Miyu didn't realize it could be so difficult, maybe he hadn't really ever thought about it before.
"No one has asked that before?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:07 am
"To be honest ... no," Aragost admitted, pressing his thumb and forefinger against his temples. "And ... though it should not be that difficult of a question ... I find ... that it is impossible for me to answer ..."
He sighed and lowered his hand. "I have not had the need to read," he told her softly. "There is very little ... very little indeed ... that I do not already know ... and what I do not know ... cannot be found in a book ..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:31 pm
Miyu wondered about story books when she remembered Lin mentioning something about the books being for learning not for just reading. Which made sense really, though she didn't yet understand that things like paper, just like sugar was a commodity hard to get a hold of.
"Oh....." Miyu thought, that must be a bit sad, to not read because you knew everything, "That must have taken a very long time to do, to do know almost everything."
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:37 pm
Aragost smiled gently. "Yes," he replied, somewhat amused by the idea. "A very long time indeed ... a lifetime ... many lifetimes. Many more lifetimes than most people will ever get to see."
If that didn't say how old he was, very little else would.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:42 pm
Miyu giggled well that would explain why Lin sometimes even went to Aragost with questions. Even though most of the questions as far as she knew were about Aragost himself.
"Then maybe I'll bring folktales with me next time for you."
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