03: Video: I used to love them myths. That stuff was deep.

[omar]

[Omar's kept his promise, and in the days since his last conversation with Leslie, he's been haunting the library, doing a lot of browsing. For being, well, a riotous gangster-slash-angel of vengeance, he's actually a very good library patron: quiet, polite, keeps mostly to himself.

And finally, he's found a book. He's sitting in the fifth floor common room, next to the shark tank, the book loosely held atop his lap, cover unseen.]

Now Barge, y'all don't know me like my warden do, so maybe y'all don't know that I've got me a real appreciation for the written word. But Leslie Knope want to encourage that in me, I suppose, so she gone and named me co-captain of the new Barge Book Club. Or something like that. I gets to pick the first book, anyway.

So now I'm left with two questions for y'all:

One, who be wanting to join up?

And two, who already got a copy of this? [And now he holds it up: 50 Shades of Grey, by E.L. James.] I hear it get real popular in the future.

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[warisart]

My designation is X5-493, sir. Or Ben, if you prefer.

What is the timetable for completing the required reading?

[omar]

[Oh, he knows.]

Let's say... next Saturday. Give the slow readers some time.

[warisart]

I'll ask my warden if I can participate.

[omar]

Don't see why not. Reading's good for the soul, ain't it?

[warisart]

I wouldn't know, sir. Care of the soul was not part of the standard curriculum Manticore adheres to.

[omar]

I's not familiar with the name offhand, but it seem to me your education be lacking some, then.

[warisart]

You are not the first to have expressed that view, sir. I assure you that on the subject Manticore concerns itself with, the education parameters are lacking very little.

[omar]

That might not be real, you know, rounded, though.

[warisart]

This has been made abundantly clear to me, sir. I anticipate your Book Club will help fill in some of what I may have missed.

[omar]

It'll be a education, that much for sure.

[warisart]

[Omar, this is a cruel, cruel thing to do to this boy. :|]

I look forward to it, sir.