[It earns a pout out of him, and he moves to brush the other's hand away.]

But everybody's sorta like a book, so my point still stands!

[In his case, he'd be a multi-chapter textbook disguised as a collection of comics. Facts brought to color by his own perception, flavored to taste but a testimony to a time past nevertheless. Certainly a heavy read, though nothing compared to what one may find in the likes of Europe or Asia.]