[ Is he smiling, a cigarette hanging from his lips, forgotten? Has he mentally set aside a portion of his meager finances for the purpose of acquiring a Tahitian pearl necklace for Rin?
Is he absolutely ignoring the reason behind either?
Yes to all. ]
When did you get so damned charming?
Times were, you'd be the first to tell me not only to stop my smoking, but swallow the whole pack and choke on it, should it please me. Now I've got your promise of undivided attention and your blessing to enjoy my vice, as well?
'The harbor of your philosophy'. You've grown poetic, too. In your ever-youthful age, I do believe you've grown into yourself. You inhabit yourself differently now.
Perhaps I don't miss you. I hardly know the you you've become in the intervening years since the you I might have missed was they who kept my company.
No.
I would like to make your acquaintance, Pookie.
I believe it will have been, in the future past-tense, an honor to have known you. As it has been, ever, an honor to know you.
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Is he absolutely ignoring the reason behind either?
Yes to all. ]
When did you get so damned charming?
Times were, you'd be the first to tell me not only to stop my smoking, but swallow the whole pack and choke on it, should it please me. Now I've got your promise of undivided attention and your blessing to enjoy my vice, as well?
'The harbor of your philosophy'. You've grown poetic, too. In your ever-youthful age, I do believe you've grown into yourself. You inhabit yourself differently now.
Perhaps I don't miss you. I hardly know the you you've become in the intervening years since the you I might have missed was they who kept my company.
No.
I would like to make your acquaintance, Pookie.
I believe it will have been, in the future past-tense, an honor to have known you. As it has been, ever, an honor to know you.
Tonight, hm? I'll clear my schedule.