"My dude." He gestures to the books and paper first, then starts shoving it aside to make some room. "I am like the king of long stories, and I would almost pay for a distraction from all this right now, cuz if I read one more pretentious overdramatic sentence about the Maker's unknowable plans for the beyond and between that is the Fade or whatever, I'm liable to scream."

Needless to say, it doesn't matter how interesting the research might be if he feels like it's not getting him anywhere. Listen, nobody has ever called Leonard Church a paragon of patience.