The skulls of his - they can resurrect people, right, it just costs money. That must sure make for some weird social dynamics.
"At some point I'm going to have to figure out the larger social process I'm embedded in, but I appreciate that it is taking the matter seriously. And it's not that I'm eager to get to sleep, it's that I expect to be predictably completely sucked in by the new planet's library, until I finally stumble back, vision blurring, to finally shower and get to sleep. So I need to have planned out all of that final process, and asked all the relevant questions about it, before I do anything as stickily-self-motivation-altering as stepping into another planet's library."