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Martin felt overwhelmed. He’d met too many people, made too much small talk, and found too little of it interesting. He was under-stimulated.
I’m sure that’s just the booze talking, he thought, then he thought, No, it’s her talking, but it’s the booze thinking.
It was a room full of earnest people having serious conversations about topics of great importance and very little interest.
it had already become routine. It was still utterly terrifying for everyone involved, but the terror was part of the routine, just one more item on the checklist.
he’s not stupid, just a slow learner. Stupid people are useless. Slow learners are tremendous fun to jerk around.”
this was not the first time either of them had slept over with someone. It was the first time they had slept over with each other, and later they’d both remember it the way most people remember a first of this type: as having been absolutely wonderful, and technically, not that great.
Brit passed the time by attempting to kill him by staring him to death.
She was arguing with a dumb person, which never works. For a smart person to argue with a dumb person, they have to dumb down their logic on the fly, while the dumb person thinks in dumb logic naturally, giving them an advantage.
Real problems stick around, of course, but the nice thing about the unimportant, made-up problems is that if you ignore them long enough, they really will just go away.”
Martin smiled and winced simultaneously, a move that is almost impossible unless you are hung over, in which case it is difficult to avoid.
Most people forget that they are part of everyone. You say everyone, and everyone hears everyone else.”
