Tempest Rising - on being a sidekick
Aug. 29th, 2011 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omlyI just finished reading Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler, one of the authors who might be coming to Arisia this year. I reviewed it on goodreads (although in all honesty I might have rated it a 2.5 if I had the option of half stars), but I wanted to save a favorite passage on the subject of the duties of a sidekick.
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"Well, you have to write down everything I say," he said with a nod to the glove compartment. "There's pen and paper in there. And you have to underline anything you think is particularly clever, so that you can congratulate me on my quick thinking when the appropriate moment arises. That's usually when my theories are proved correct, which of course they will be. You also have to question anything I say that might need explanation, so that I get the chance to provide one in order to highlight my own genius. Oh, and if you could leave the pithy one-liners to me, I'd appreciate it. Pithy one-liners are not for sidekicks, I'm afraid."
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"Well, you have to write down everything I say," he said with a nod to the glove compartment. "There's pen and paper in there. And you have to underline anything you think is particularly clever, so that you can congratulate me on my quick thinking when the appropriate moment arises. That's usually when my theories are proved correct, which of course they will be. You also have to question anything I say that might need explanation, so that I get the chance to provide one in order to highlight my own genius. Oh, and if you could leave the pithy one-liners to me, I'd appreciate it. Pithy one-liners are not for sidekicks, I'm afraid."
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Date: 2011-08-29 04:34 pm (UTC)