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alcesverdes) wrote2009-08-12 04:48 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2009-08-12 04:48 pm
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[Pushing Daisies] Practical Applications
Title: Practical Applications
Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Characters/Pairings: Chuck Charles
Rating: G
Length: 550 words.
Summary: Chuck reflects on reading an its practical applications.
Spoilers: None
Author's Note: Written for the "Coming of age" prompt from the cliche_bingo challenge.
Happens about the beginning of the second season.
Chuck Charles's theory was that most books were picky and they didn't go around sharing their contents with just about anyone: some books refused to be read until the reader was ready and others, for one reason or another, disliked the reader so much they either 'got lost' or find a way to be borrowed and they never returned. Chuck didn't have much problems with them, specially not from the second category; she honestly loved books and she was always willing to actually listen to them --which no many persons do-- so they opened to her both physically and metaphorically.
She thought of that one day she stumbled upon a certain old book about rites of passage around the globe. Well, it wasn't as old as other books she owned but, surely, by then its contents were pretty much outdated. Still, it was like meeting an old-fashioned friend after a long time, always a joyful moment.
Just by looking at the cover, she began to remember what she had learned from it. Its weight in her hands and the paper against her fingers told her a little bit more. It was a nice book, full with many interesting things.
This particular book had seemingly found Chuck particularly lovely --or maybe it was just grateful, since she as a teen had saved it from ending up in the garbage--, because since the moment they'd met, it had guided her through its most obscure terms via several pencil annotations with the handwriting of its previous owner. Thus, Chuck had learned quite easily everything the western world knew about rites of passage around the world by the time the book had been written.
She was now remembering the basics of the theory when she held it and some of the most impressive details when the smell of the pages reached her nose.
Five seconds later, she was having an epiphany.
These rites of passage marked a bridge between an old life and a new one through a metaphorical second birth.
Pretty much what had happened to her.
She'd died on that ship and Ned had gave her a new life: he had, metaphorically speaking, second-birthed her --which, of course, didn't mean she was going to start calling him 'mom' or anything. Even if he, bless his heart, was just as nagging as Chuck understood some moms could be.
Point was that she was now, officially and for most cultures of the planets, an adult, even though the experience had come to her relatively late in life but it had come nevertheless. And that meant she had to be --she could see the words on his mind's eye so clearly-- 'socially responsible' and 'culturally aware', which in turn meant Kitty Pimms had to go out and volunteer herself somewhere.
She'd go and to that the next morning.
She smiled as she put the book back to its place. Then, she went for one about Persuasion Techniques to Use Against Nervous Individuals because she just knew mommy Ned was going to freak out when he found out about it.
As she went through the index, she thought she would never understand why some people said books didn't have a practical use. Specially since, most likely this attitude was why books didn't like them in the first place.
Fandom: Pushing Daisies
Characters/Pairings: Chuck Charles
Rating: G
Length: 550 words.
Summary: Chuck reflects on reading an its practical applications.
Spoilers: None
Author's Note: Written for the "Coming of age" prompt from the cliche_bingo challenge.
Happens about the beginning of the second season.
Chuck Charles's theory was that most books were picky and they didn't go around sharing their contents with just about anyone: some books refused to be read until the reader was ready and others, for one reason or another, disliked the reader so much they either 'got lost' or find a way to be borrowed and they never returned. Chuck didn't have much problems with them, specially not from the second category; she honestly loved books and she was always willing to actually listen to them --which no many persons do-- so they opened to her both physically and metaphorically.
She thought of that one day she stumbled upon a certain old book about rites of passage around the globe. Well, it wasn't as old as other books she owned but, surely, by then its contents were pretty much outdated. Still, it was like meeting an old-fashioned friend after a long time, always a joyful moment.
Just by looking at the cover, she began to remember what she had learned from it. Its weight in her hands and the paper against her fingers told her a little bit more. It was a nice book, full with many interesting things.
This particular book had seemingly found Chuck particularly lovely --or maybe it was just grateful, since she as a teen had saved it from ending up in the garbage--, because since the moment they'd met, it had guided her through its most obscure terms via several pencil annotations with the handwriting of its previous owner. Thus, Chuck had learned quite easily everything the western world knew about rites of passage around the world by the time the book had been written.
She was now remembering the basics of the theory when she held it and some of the most impressive details when the smell of the pages reached her nose.
Five seconds later, she was having an epiphany.
These rites of passage marked a bridge between an old life and a new one through a metaphorical second birth.
Pretty much what had happened to her.
She'd died on that ship and Ned had gave her a new life: he had, metaphorically speaking, second-birthed her --which, of course, didn't mean she was going to start calling him 'mom' or anything. Even if he, bless his heart, was just as nagging as Chuck understood some moms could be.
Point was that she was now, officially and for most cultures of the planets, an adult, even though the experience had come to her relatively late in life but it had come nevertheless. And that meant she had to be --she could see the words on his mind's eye so clearly-- 'socially responsible' and 'culturally aware', which in turn meant Kitty Pimms had to go out and volunteer herself somewhere.
She'd go and to that the next morning.
She smiled as she put the book back to its place. Then, she went for one about Persuasion Techniques to Use Against Nervous Individuals because she just knew mommy Ned was going to freak out when he found out about it.
As she went through the index, she thought she would never understand why some people said books didn't have a practical use. Specially since, most likely this attitude was why books didn't like them in the first place.
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Lo que sí, significa que mi libro del Lobo Estepario no me quiere? D8 Porque lo presté hace uuuuuuuuuuuuuff y hasta ahora no lo veo 8'D
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