“Nothing is ever quite as one pictures it, oui? I never thought everyone would be speaking English, for one thing.” This he said with a conspiratorial twinkle in his eye. “I have a few friends who would be utterly furious.”
Combeferre sipped his coffee and realized that in his enthusiasm for the conversation, his drink had turned lukewarm. “But in all seriousness, I do know what you mean. Even one who spends too much time thinking about the distant future cannot predict what is to come. Why, the technology alone...” He shook his head. Sometimes he wondered if he would ever entirely understand it all, a difficult thing for a scientific mind to admit.
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Date: 2013-09-23 04:37 pm (UTC)Combeferre sipped his coffee and realized that in his enthusiasm for the conversation, his drink had turned lukewarm. “But in all seriousness, I do know what you mean. Even one who spends too much time thinking about the distant future cannot predict what is to come. Why, the technology alone...” He shook his head. Sometimes he wondered if he would ever entirely understand it all, a difficult thing for a scientific mind to admit.