Notes from Mr. McTaggard:
To “Book It”, at least where I come from, means to “get out of there as soon as possible”. It is also the action of saveing a webpage on the internet (but, of course, is short for “Book Marking”), or writing/typing down/in some important date for an appointment. Yet I will opt out for a 4th definition, improper English mind you, but suitable to my
jokepurposes.I am using “Book” as a verb, meaning: the act of placing, setting, or putting books onto some surface. Present tense simple and perfect is “He books”, progressive is “He is booking”, but I will go for the perfect past tense “He booked it”, which could be a simple past tense since the word was not accompanied by “had”. But with the degradation of English, most have removed that useful indictor calling it “Bad Grammar”.
However, we can be sure that my use is in the perfect past simply by applying empirical methods to it: I have gathered up evidence by way of a picture that shows that whoever this “he” is has indeed already placed the books on it. What is it? A desktop:
… I couldn’t resist, thought it would be fun to connect the scene to a previous project for story’s sake.