SWITCHBOARD

[wordsmithery]

If you're deciding to actually use that phone in your room, go right ahead; the Wordsmith is a busy man but he's often around, and he has no real reason not to talk to you, assuming that you do it correctly.

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Comments

[wordsmithery]

To say the absolute least, no.

[matchbreaker]

Really, really? Here I thought the kid might've been on to something!

So what are you into?

[wordsmithery]

Nothing.

[matchbreaker]

Oh wow, that's too bad. You lead a dull life then, hobbyless....

[wordsmithery]

I manage to get by, more often than not.

[matchbreaker]

Doing what? Just watching us or something?

[wordsmithery]

Yes, as a matter of fact. I find human relationships quite interesting at times.

[matchbreaker]

Did you forget I'm not human?

[ R U D E ]

[wordsmithery]

The concept of sentiment applies even to something like you.

[matchbreaker]

The "concept of sentiment...?" The devil's that supposed to mean? Like it's all the same to you?

[ Or did he mean... wait... ]

[wordsmithery]

I thought my wording was very clear. All of you seem to take issue with it on occasion, so perhaps I should reevaluate my approach.

[matchbreaker]

[ Doot, doot, doot ]

Wait, so does that mean you're one of those sick people who doesn't feel things?

[wordsmithery]

I don't think of myself as sick. And for that matter, I feel things quite often. You expected otherwise?

[matchbreaker]

Well you said the "concept of sentiment" is interesting, so wouldn't that mean you don't have that going on? I mean what's so interesting about it if you have it?

[wordsmithery]

Sentiment is hardly ever expressed or felt in the same fashion between one person and the next. I find the variance and scope of it in any given relationship or interaction to be a thing I take interest in watching. It is as simple as that.

[matchbreaker]

[ Gripping the phone a little tighter she groans before responding, ]

Please don't tell me all this is about something as stupid as that.

[wordsmithery]

Oh, not at all. My interest in that is purely incidental.

[matchbreaker]

So what is the point of all this?

[wordsmithery]

Something even you would fail to comprehend.

[matchbreaker]

Come on, try me?

[wordsmithery]

No.

[matchbreaker]

You do know it's rude to assume someone's stupid, right?