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It was creepy. His Affection toward me was ninety-five. Now I knew what happened to someone when their Affection reached ninety-five.
“Shining-Ja! Before I met you, I was nothing more than a blind man!” the Indoor Librarian shouted, fondling my foot. “I was as good as deaf before I heard your lines!”
The Indoor Librarian’s eyes lit up as he tried to cut my toenail using the clipper. “You’re my light! You’re my music!”
His eyes were terrifying.
“Since your name is Gong-Ja, I’ll gladly convert to Confucianism[1]! I’ll become your scholar! Isn’t it wonderful to learn and to practice? Isn’t it a pleasure to have friends visit from afar? Even when others don’t recognize your efforts, you’re a noble man if you don’t get angry![2] Starting today, I’m a Confucian scholar who serves you, Mr. Gong-Ja!”
“Hey. For god’s sake! Hey!”
What kind of crackhead scholar went for someone’s toenail? I wanted to ask him that question, but there was something about his eyes that made me stop. His eyes and his heavy breathing made me realize that no matter what I said, it was going to go in one ear and out the other.
“If you keep doing this, I’m not going to enter another apocalyptic book,” I warned him.
The Indoor Librarian stopped talking. The creepy part was that even though he was silent, he still fondled my foot. Was he crazy?
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