“Today I'm going to see Josephine!”
Phil said. “She and I are going to find out about why our friends
don't seem to like to be expected to care about the notions of
pleasure to be much else than sexual insinuations or insinuations
about their supremacy compared either to those who are - sexual -
or those who aren't.”
His friends looked at him with an air
of not believing him to be in his right mind. “Why then,” one of
them said, “do you feel that we are your friends at all!? I mean
wouldn't you - and I guess she also - have been better off never
talking to us, then, even? That is, I don't mind that you do that,
it's just the insinuation you just made, about us not being worthy of
your trust and company, that troubles me!”
“Jeff!” Phil answered. “I don't
feel like being into explaining myself for the sake of the claims
that you might believe me to have about seeing myself as the friend
that you guys want to talk to!”
“Then what do you want?!” A woman
friend named Wendy burst out.
Phil said he didn't want to answer to
that one either, since he got harassed by people if he said they were
to be viewed as good enough people to claim to have any reason for
liking. Jeff and Wendy both looked a bit uneasy upon hearing it, and
so did his formerly very good friend Andrew. The two others who were
there - Carl and Jenny - seemed rather indifferent, though.
“Look,” Andrew said, “as we go a
long time back, in our friendship, there really seems to be some
mistake in that you take me, also as this kind of a fellow! I mean -
cause you mean me as well, don't you? - that we don't have to have
the confidence in each other to always pretend the best about the
other fellow, but at least we could have the courtesy with each other
to tell the other fellow about it first, instead of ruling out the
possibilities of responsible and just care for one another just the
same!”
“Don't say to me that you don't feel
like telling me at times that I am a none-worthy kind of fellow!
don't pretend for me that you didn't scold me the other day just to
pretend for the others that I was an asshole and a looser whom you
didn't want to get into contact with in the first place. Don't even
tell me that you're not the looser you say I should be with as if
there was a winning streak with him of some kind!”
With that Phil left his five former
friends and went to a theater to meet with Josephine. When there he
saw her standing there and waiting. He said hello, and she greeted
him back. After that they went into the cinema and watched a movie
about a family that got lost in a wilderness and managed to survive
for some years; but eventually they all died.
After it, the tow of them went to a
restaurant where each of them ordered a dinner. While there they
began speaking about that issue Phil had earlier discussed with his
former friends.
“I guess they're about,” Josephine
said, “the notion of themselves as supreme because they are
contently and superficially smart at seeing one another as the real
good friends they aren't and then also to see you as the friend who
disappoints them just because he isn't into very much of such a
facade.”
“Yeah! That's what I've been
figuring, too!” Phil said.
“Thereby I feel that you and I should
start a friendship to be for real about good friends and not about
sexuality - nor, actually, about that seeming hatred for it,
either, though!”
“I hoped you would tell me something
like this! Thank you for being a friend of a more real kind than
them! ... But now, I'm afraid I need to discuss another issue about
them: I can see in them that they are immoral compared to you or me
- for example. But, somehow, I cannot find in them to obnoxious,
usually, like neither you nor me! I don't mean the kind of obnoxious
that they settle their business of seeming good with. What I mean is
the kind that destroys one's assumptions about the friends one has as
good enough people!”
“I hope you mean, then, that I and
you are not troubled, actually, by each other's attitude problems!
Because if not, then this pessimism, if I may say so, of yours is not
good enough attitude for me to be trusting. I feel rather embarrassed
if you feel that way about us! I mean, if you feel that we are more
or less bound to be quarreling with each other, even though we both
feel the same about the superficiality of such folks as they!”
“I can then not respond by anything
but a response to why I said that. That is, I feel that we are into
being responsible in the sense that doesn't pay off, seemingly, about
caring about people's attitude problems and so.”
“I know. But thereby, wouldn't it pay
off to just ignore them for the time that we spend together?”
“I guess. ... But I simply felt that
I needed to talk about them this much, though.”
“I feel that we then can pretend as
if something about ourselves as the immature people we are in that
sense! I mean we can go to my place or yours, and there we can have
the fun that they seem to have - or couldn't we?!”
“Yeah, I guess you and I could do
that!”