Stephen Clair Mr. Demonstrata The Mythology Book Prior to this moment, Mrs. Demonstrata is walking through the living room and says, I am wondering- and trails off. Mr. Demonstrata looks up from his book and says, what? Nothing, she says, I'm just wondering is all. Mr. Demonstrata is reading a book about mythology at the dining room table where Mrs. Demonstrata resides over a cup of tea. The Mythology Book, like most everything Mr. Demonstrata reads, inspires him to want to share every morsel of information he reads with Mrs. Demonstrata but because her appearance is that of someone in deep thought he restrains himself, difficult as it is. Instead, he keeps his mouth shut and decides that he will tell her later - a time when they are casually conversing, perhaps in the bed that evening. Mrs. Demonstrata perhaps tired of staring off into space, or bored, lifts a cookbook from the table and begins reading. Look at this! She cries out to Mr. Demonstrata, who kindly looks up from The Mythology Book. She is holding open the cookbook for him to view a picture of a bowl of soup. Looks good, huh? She asks. Mm, he says. Chicken soup, she says. Mr. Demonstrata turns back to his reading, the corner of his mouth now turned in a smirk, and thinks to himself how good and quite okay it is to share what one is reading. All this time he had wanted Mrs. Demonstrata to also read The Mythology Book so she too could experience the exhilarating feeling he was getting from each consecutive revelation, of which there seemed to be an endless supply coming from the pages before him. In fact, as he thought more on this inclination to share, what he wanted was for her to read The Mythology Book and be as moved as he, so much so that she might read it back to him or speak with tremendous enthusiasm about the nuances of mythology as discussed in the book, so that he might hear of the subject all over again, reliving it. And if this is the case, that what he wants is to hear it all back, repeated to him, you might say, Mr. Demonstrata wonders if his desire to share his experience with his wife is more a selfish desire to experience The Mythology Book for a first time all over again. Quack