34. "RE: a random aside"
In response to message #33
>Upon consideration, I'm not sure she would know that, or indeed have >ever heard of laudanum in the first place. Reimu's education has been >extremely... let's go with uneven. I assume her official >guardians only bothered teaching her things directly relating to the >Hakurei Shrine and her duties therein, so anything else she might know >about, she'd have heard from Marisa, whose intellectual interests >are... eclectic. Any pharmacological knowledge she might possess most >likely tends toward the alchemical and/or mycological.
I know a surprising number of people who were homeschooled and have similar strange gaps in their knowledge. It's always kind of interesting figuring out where those gaps are.
>"This one is called Psilocybe cubensis."
And it's not so great for culinary uses, sadly :-/
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea