Thankfully for both of them Wolfgang is easy to intimidate but difficult to scare off, nor does he take it terribly personally when people are short with him. And even if he were, the books capture more of his attention -- there's a look on his face, a kind of clear lightness, that people only get when they're really into learning.

As evidenced by his history of selections, his interests are sort of all over the map, although it's clear he's making an effort to get a varied foundation, rather than cherry-picking only topics of personal interest -- while it's not unusual for Baedalites to have about the equivalent of a high school education or less (and when he was in school he got very high marks) he still constantly feels like he's behind, somehow. That's ridiculous, he puts more effort into it than many of the people who actually are students here.

"Oh! Thank you," he says as he takes the volumes, looking especially with obvious interest at the top one, which he examines both front, back, and inside covers of. "I would have missed this one entirely, thank you."