He laughs a little at the comment about the fumes, and talks about how lucky Walter was not to be born in 19th century Petersburg, describing the yellow and brown fog that covers the city in the summers especially... Fog that rolls in from the swamp and nearby sea, but mixes with whatever the factories are puffing out into the air...
It's an easy conversation. "You better keep doing those exercises!" he teases. "I'm going to remind you, every day..." He really will, too.
They're just stepping out into the deck when Walter brings up the book. It gets his attention. The way Walter uses fiction to talk about the Barge is always clever, even if Pyotr's own relationship to literature is complicated by Stepan Trofimovich. Movies are easier than books, not that he actually dislikes novels as much as he pretends...
"Mm, at least future England has news." The Barge is practically pre-literate the way everything is scattered across random network posts. It keeps everything centered around gossip spread through friendship circles, rather than allowing for narrative that might inspire wider solidarity... No pamphlets, no newspapers.
"What happens? Our hero forms a group of misfits to overthrow the government via good morals and friendship? And, of course, romance..." He may not know a lot about 20th and 21st century media, but thanks to Walter, and movies like The Matrix, he's gotten a certain impression...
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It's an easy conversation. "You better keep doing those exercises!" he teases. "I'm going to remind you, every day..." He really will, too.
They're just stepping out into the deck when Walter brings up the book. It gets his attention. The way Walter uses fiction to talk about the Barge is always clever, even if Pyotr's own relationship to literature is complicated by Stepan Trofimovich. Movies are easier than books, not that he actually dislikes novels as much as he pretends...
"Mm, at least future England has news." The Barge is practically pre-literate the way everything is scattered across random network posts. It keeps everything centered around gossip spread through friendship circles, rather than allowing for narrative that might inspire wider solidarity... No pamphlets, no newspapers.
"What happens? Our hero forms a group of misfits to overthrow the government via good morals and friendship? And, of course, romance..." He may not know a lot about 20th and 21st century media, but thanks to Walter, and movies like The Matrix, he's gotten a certain impression...