[Pretty much no one out there has ever caused Evelyn grievous bodily harm, and it's unlikely that they ever will taking into account her demeanour. At least she isn't embittered by trauma, right? Right?
Not counting her parents' untimely deaths in the 1922 version of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, of course.
Evelyn isn't generally much of a fiction reader either, though she occasionally indulges in some yellow-paper adventure stories. It's something of a guilty pleasure for an individual who's spent much of her life indoors with ancient artefacts for companions.
Curious as to what a physics professor actually reads in his spare time, she isn't exactly surprised that the material appears to be (for the most part) within his area of expertise. And the majority of the terms would likely go over her head.
She laughs.]
You have a very high opinion of someone you just met.
[Then again, very few of the people she's spoken to so far have provided pleasant conversation under the circumstances.]
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a bore, actually. Ancient Egyptian history is my primary focus - most recently I was studying Seti I from the nineteenth dynasty. He was one of the most affluent pharaohs of the Old Kingdom, and the reading was research for my expedition.
[Evelyn shifts a little guiltily.]
...and...sometimes I partake in Arthur Conan Doyle or Rider Haggard.
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Date: 2011-07-21 07:32 pm (UTC)Not counting her parents' untimely deaths in the 1922 version of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, of course.
Evelyn isn't generally much of a fiction reader either, though she occasionally indulges in some yellow-paper adventure stories. It's something of a guilty pleasure for an individual who's spent much of her life indoors with ancient artefacts for companions.
Curious as to what a physics professor actually reads in his spare time, she isn't exactly surprised that the material appears to be (for the most part) within his area of expertise. And the majority of the terms would likely go over her head.
She laughs.]
You have a very high opinion of someone you just met.
[Then again, very few of the people she's spoken to so far have provided pleasant conversation under the circumstances.]
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a bore, actually. Ancient Egyptian history is my primary focus - most recently I was studying Seti I from the nineteenth dynasty. He was one of the most affluent pharaohs of the Old Kingdom, and the reading was research for my expedition.
[Evelyn shifts a little guiltily.]
...and...sometimes I partake in Arthur Conan Doyle or Rider Haggard.