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"I mean that's why I'm really telling you all this" (and where did that come from? every one around is thinking and wondering) ", Is to provide myself with Critical Distance --" (and now haughtily, putting on airs) " I would think you could figure a thing like that out" (turning his nose up ever so slightly as he pitches his voice up ever so subtly) "."

He's practicing Arrogance and Greed for the actors' workshop, what's her excuse? Melissa never fully recovered from damage to her body in an automobile accident a few years back and is resentful, and no longer capitalizing here because it's no longer really necessary, she will never really meet her own expectations or those of others -- and should I point out that I am speaking in code here, we all know what we're talking about right? --, and that makes her very moody and withdrawn. So is angry at Jackson for this interruption, and rightly so. Who meanwhile has rebounded away and is moving in lacksadaisical, flattened parabolas on a slick surface -- one with little friction -- and is off complaining about some other aspect of his reality -- malignant flippers or some such nonsense, this tossed off fliply as a way of ridiculing the notion that the topic currently under discussion (but constantly eluding the fumbling boot, no?) has any "deeper meaning". Like now she's angry about having her "time outside" disturbed. Just goes on and on, the stories I could tell you about that epic disagreement would take up so much time that you would be bored with listening to it. That's really what I'm doing with all this business is actively pushing you away -- spectacularly ill-timed, I know.