to fuel everybody's ego and guarantee
the creamy lubricant of paranoia."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Do you want an honest answer?"
"I'll settle for an answer that
appears to be honest."
"I honestly do not know
what it means but I love the phrases
failure in the system,
fuel everybody's ego,
and—the cherry on top of the cake—
creamy lubricant of paranoia."
"Meaning I was supposed to be impressed
with the sound of your voice
and its romance with syllables?"
"I didn't say it to impress you."
"Really?"
"I said it to impress me."
"Even if it does nothing more than
confuse the person you're saying it to?"
"It did a lot more than that."
"How so?"
"It gave us something to talk about:
without being able to understand
what it was we were talking about."
"So what else is new."
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Footnotes
This conversation took place in ≈1969
The woman conversing with Mr. Steerling,
is believed to be Christina Arsenault
The HE/SHE sequence
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
This sequence is not linked together
because we want to make our favorite thieves
work for their money
The quote at the top of this page
has been attributed to
Sven Golvenstein
The next Frances Steerling
page is here
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