Status Updates From Mis fantasmas

‘Here, a mutual obliviousness at work. Obliviousness, rather than acceptance/understanding—it felt congenial—He liked to talk—to cackle. She didn’t like to talk at all. She went along w/ things—imperiously—Her look—brought to mind—a cat receiving the tribute of its worshippers in ancient Egypt. Or a person enduring a bumpy ride in a sedan chair. He did treat her like the object of a one-man cult. He was all wonder.’

‘—strange when somebody talks to you like that. When they’re lying, but somehow you’re on the spot. Was he trying to impress us? But that could hardly be the case—you couldn’t value someone’s good opinion while thinking they would buy this kind of crap—A living witness was required for the attitudes of this self-pollinating entity. A living listener—required—you were it—even as the ‘living’ element was—disregarded.’