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[synanthrope]

What's this?

Tick-tock, tick tock. I hear a clock but I don't see one.

I don't know where I am, and that's not particularly common. But it does seem very...I don't think familiar is the right term. Although it feels that, too. Interesting.

This isn't New York.

Hello. I'm lost.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Unless that's an obscure part of the Northern Territory, I reckon one of us just got mixed up.

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[synanthrope]

I'm from Namibia. Socrates is from Sydney.

You're tripping over your words, Robert.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I held up a good while. So you'd be half-siblings? Same dad?

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[synanthrope]

Yes. He's a very good brother. I spent time in Australia, because of him.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Ever step outside New South Wales? I'm from down the way a bit: Melbourne.

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[synanthrope]

I've been there, too. My brother, he followed the surf. I haven't been much inland, on account of that.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Your brother sounds like my kind of bloke. How many are there of him?

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[synanthrope]

There's only one of Socrates.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Interesting names must run in the family, too.

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[synanthrope]

Satya means truth, in Sanskrit. I was the only one our father named.

He traveled a great deal.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

So did mine.

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[synanthrope]

What did he do?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Same as me. I mean, he was a doctor, too.

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[synanthrope]

Is that why you became one?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

In a sense.

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[synanthrope]

Which kind of sense? The one where you want to make him proud, or prove him wrong?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[He still has this old fallback, but it's rusty.]

Neither. Just got used to the environment. Had my tonsils out when I was ten and thought hospitals were all cute nurses and ice cream.

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[synanthrope]

I hope your logic has improved since then.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I wasn't completely wrong about the nurses.

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[synanthrope]

I'm sure some are old and ugly.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

And some finished off the ice cream on their own.

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[synanthrope]

Are you still looking for ice cream?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Depends who's sharing it.

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[synanthrope]

Do you have strict requirements?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I go by instinct.