[Inside is… a picture book! On the right side, each fold contains a drawing, while on the left side, there is a poem. The book is hand-bound, hand-drawn, and hand-written. He used yarn to stitch the pages together, tying knots at either side.
Each of the pictures is a setting. They’re beautifully drawn—Dirk actually is capable of art, surprisingly, and seems to have done a good job on these scenes. The locations should be familiar. It starts with the rooftop on LOTAK and goes forward to the kitchen on base as it was at first arrival, a dreamscape, the volcano, the dream pods… The newest page is the tree they had their last conversation in. In fact, all of them are locations where Dave and Dirk have had an important conversation. Each of the scenes holds a sense of serenity and peace to them.
Paired with each image is a terrible Seussean poem in the style of Green Eggs and Ham. Except instead of talking about not eating green eggs and ham, it is written along the lines of “We would be brothers in a tree / We would be brothers by the sea.” It is honestly hilariously simplistic because Dirk has to get his irony in somewhere, and it is apparently by pretending they're in the ages 5-8 reading group.
There several extra sheets, not yet inserted, which can easily be added in thanks to the way Dirk bound the book.
Dirk is of course watching Dave with some intense scrutiny here. He is not great at hiding his nerves in terms of that level of focus.]
It's, uh, been in the making for a while. This seemed like the best time for it.
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Each of the pictures is a setting. They’re beautifully drawn—Dirk actually is capable of art, surprisingly, and seems to have done a good job on these scenes. The locations should be familiar. It starts with the rooftop on LOTAK and goes forward to the kitchen on base as it was at first arrival, a dreamscape, the volcano, the dream pods… The newest page is the tree they had their last conversation in. In fact, all of them are locations where Dave and Dirk have had an important conversation. Each of the scenes holds a sense of serenity and peace to them.
Paired with each image is a terrible Seussean poem in the style of Green Eggs and Ham. Except instead of talking about not eating green eggs and ham, it is written along the lines of “We would be brothers in a tree / We would be brothers by the sea.” It is honestly hilariously simplistic because Dirk has to get his irony in somewhere, and it is apparently by pretending they're in the ages 5-8 reading group.
There several extra sheets, not yet inserted, which can easily be added in thanks to the way Dirk bound the book.
Dirk is of course watching Dave with some intense scrutiny here. He is not great at hiding his nerves in terms of that level of focus.]
It's, uh, been in the making for a while. This seemed like the best time for it.