Saturday, September 16, 2006
TWO
He didn’t like meeting people eye to eye. He was tired of creating acquaintances, friends and non-strangers all the time. And eye connect, he had learnt, was always the first step towards signaling approachability. And once two people took that step towards each other the only way out was rudeness, amputation, look away, see through: chose your term, there is no decent way. So he had decided not to begin the process for the fear that he would need to opt out of it.
This attitude naturally led to a dramatic reduction in the number of his social encounters. Decreasing the chance of him cohabiting new stories. So he increasingly relied on the life before for characters, for drama, for contradictions, for his livelihood.
He didn’t like meeting people eye to eye. He was tired of creating acquaintances, friends and non-strangers all the time. And eye connect, he had learnt, was always the first step towards signaling approachability. And once two people took that step towards each other the only way out was rudeness, amputation, look away, see through: chose your term, there is no decent way. So he had decided not to begin the process for the fear that he would need to opt out of it.
This attitude naturally led to a dramatic reduction in the number of his social encounters. Decreasing the chance of him cohabiting new stories. So he increasingly relied on the life before for characters, for drama, for contradictions, for his livelihood.
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