Character idea: A scholar who is a book louse larvae— he is deeply torn between completing his research by reading the books and eating them so that he can pupate (and maybe then, at last have the nerve to ask out the moth on whom he has a terrible unrequited, totally secret crush)
Sometimes he eats books he finds poorly written out of spite.
@futurebird But the bad books give him indigestion - only the good books taste good to him and that adds to his angst
“I had to miss a week of work sick in bed after eating Art of the Deal, but it seemed like a matter of personal duty to much up that one, and worse I don’t think it helped my silk glands develop at all! Really I felt worse after the ordeal—had to nibble on a 1st edition of Nother’s tables just to get my bearings— and now all of the logarithms between 0.5 and 0.7 are missing.” He said with a little sob. “Whatever am I to do? I simply love my books far too much!”
@futurebird @joyographic Speaking of logarithm table books (what a segue!), do you know the history of Benford's Law?
@peterdrake @joyographic I love this story! I wonder if our bookworm prefers the less worn pages for his snacks…