“What do you mean you read the book?”

“Exactly what I said. My character picks up the tome—“

“The large, black tome with the mystical symbols engraved in silver on the cover and a warm, soft feel to the leather?”

“—yes, that tome, and I start to read it.”

“And I look over his shoulder and read it, too.”

I sigh. You don’t ever read the books. You burn them. “All right then, make a sanity check.”...