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[quinientos]

how do you switch this thing to spanish?

[Nothing should be said about the embarrassing amount of time it's taken him to type up that message, but suffice to say, meals could be had (with dessert), flowers might wilt, and mayflys inched stoically to death. Maybe it's an exaggeration, but it doesn't really feel that much of one to him]

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[inshallah]

No, not physical things but things like movies and tv shows... you can read books on them?

[quinientos]

Not much of a reader. Don't know what movies and tv shows are.

But this thing, this phone, it can show them too?

[inshallah]

Movies and TV shows, they tell stories but in moving pictures and sound.

[ Wow it is a lot harder to explain that than she'd have thought. ]

Yes, it can. It can show you just about anything.

[quinientos]

Books, then. They're flashy books.

What do you like seeing best, then? Where do I start?

[inshallah]

Many people who do not like books like movies and TV shows though.

That's a difficult question. What are your interests in general? That helps.

[quinientos]

The only interest I've had lately is staying alive. I'm not sure what that would actually mean I enjoy in these shows of yours.

[inshallah]

Well, there are some that are about survival and the like but maybe something lighter would be more appropriate.

[quinientos]

Which one do you like best? Maybe I will start there.

[inshallah]

I love Lucy is one of my favorites.

[quinientos]

Who is this Lucy?

[inshallah]

Well, she's the main character of the show.

[quinientos]

And what does this Lucy do?

[inshallah]

Well, she's a housewife but she's always getting herself and her husband into trouble. She's really funny.

[quinientos]

Plenty of housewives I know back in Mexico who do the same, but it's not usually so funny for the husband.

What makes her different?

[inshallah]

[ How to explain how groundbreaking Lucille Ball was!? ]

It's a little hard to explain because her show really impacted culture in a significant way so even decades and decades later people still love her show and find her funny.

At the time, and I guess it never really changes... women weren't considered like they could be funny and yet I love Lucy has a female lead who is funny and strong.

[quinientos]

Culture in general has been pretty simple as far as Vasquez is concerned. There's some music, some reading and the town doesn't really change other than being in a different area.

Sometimes, people dress differently. Mostly? They don't.

I know plenty of women who could be very dirty and funny. Most of them did not do any entertaining out of the brothel, though.

[inshallah]

Well, she definitely isn't from a brothel.

[quinientos]

This is one of those things that's different because it's from the future, yes? So she is just a very strong woman?

[inshallah]

Perhaps, I guess. I mean she's married and a housewife but she is pretty strong.