"That is surprisingly optimistic of you." Getting his books back, going to Hayle, eventually returning to the Singularity. It's all very hopeful and he wonders if he's rubbing off on him. Probably.

Istredd smiles at him and shakes his head at his stack. "At least keep it organized by name or genre if you're going to stack." His organizational system is ridiculous and it doesn't seem like the owner here actually cares, although it is all done correctly by genre if not filtered another way. Istredd's just picky about it. Some day maybe he'll have to open his own book store. That's an idea for fifty years or so from now.

I'm hoping the next time we go to the Singularity we might be able to get a sense of how to anchor us through it. It is one of his better ideas in accomplishing his goal of keeping them safely there.