“You want the short and ugly of it? Fine. Nothing matters. You, everyone you know, all the swarming masses in this town or that? You’re all bullets in a gun, long since decommissioned. You know it, Alex. You’re bombarded with it, everywhere you go.”
“Yeah, yeah. Everything is transitory, and we all die.”
Chuck hurled his draught glass against the face brick wall, sending a beer-soaked rain of glass and spittle spraying across the carpeting, as he lunged towards Alex.
Heads turned as he breathed the next words heavily against Alex’s face. “Everything is transitory, and we are already dead!
“You want the short and ugly of it? Fine. Nothing matters. You, everyone you know, all the swarming masses in this town or that? You’re all bullets in a gun, long since decommissioned. You know it, Alex. You’re bombarded with it, everywhere you go.”
“Yeah, yeah. Everything is transitory, and we all die.”
Chuck hurled his draught glass against the face brick wall, sending a beer-soaked rain of glass and spittle spraying across the carpeting, as he lunged towards Alex.
Heads turned as he breathed the next words heavily against Alex’s face.
“Everything is transitory, and we are already dead!