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 The Revᵈ, producing a scarr'd old Note-book, cover'd in cheap Leather, begins to read.

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The Reverend makes a show of pulling out his well-loved Moleskin, opens it, glances studiously across the pages, licks a finger, turns a page, scans the text, makes an exaggerated expression of delighted discovery, a big smile and a large nod of his head, as he finds the beginning of the story and starts to read it aloud to his audience.

Subext:
The Reverend is a hipster. He carries around a leather notebook, beaten up just enough to show how well used it is (which means it's full of wise wisdom and experienced experiences) and has an obsession with coffee. He also loves to discover new places with Mason (his emo friend) and Dixon (his jovial pal).
    Cherrycoke also begins to read the story from out of a book which has a different connotation than improvising it. These are white Europeans who have no true sense of oral history so reading a history out of a book seems more authoritative. There's a sense that memory shifts and recollections blur. But text must have been written closer to the source of the material and isn't prone to changing across time (I know, I know! Text absolutely changes due to the interpretation of the reader's and society's values and morays). It has a greater sense of truth about it. Although that truth is about to be tested to its limits as soon as that Goddamned dog shows up yapping his philosophical face off. Or that mechanical duck gains sentience and falls in love with a chef.