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keen to use advanced puppetry techniques in a picture, maybe to depict demons or other supernormal beings. So I got a book." _I got a book_: Gibreel the autodidact made it sound like an injection. To a girl from a house that revered books -- her father had made them all kiss any volume that fell by chance to the floor -- and who had reacted by treating them badly, ripping out pages she wanted or didn't like, scribbling and scratching at them to show them who was boss, Gibreel's form of irreverence, non-abusive, taking books for what they offered without feeling the need to genuflect or destroy, was something new; and, she accepted, pleasing. She learned from him. He, however, seemed impervious to any wisdom she might wish to impart, about, for example, the correct place in which to dispose of dirty socks. When she attempted to suggest he "did his share", he went into a profound, injured sulk, expecting to be cajoled back into a good humour. Which, to her disgust, she found herself willing, for the moment at any rate, to do.
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