[That edge in there is beginning to alarm him. Yes, 'alarm', there really is no other word for it. She called him to talk her down in her anxiety? He never meant to sign up for this.
Still...what can he do? Keep talking, he supposes.]
"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar". And even I know most of what Freud came up with was thoroughly debunked as practically worthless garbage ages ago. Though...admittedly perhaps not the part about dream analysis.
[He's pretty certain, what sparingly little he remembers of Psych 101, of that. He finds himself wishing whatever odd connection it is they have, wasn't somehow inadvertently founded on the principle that he would never lie to her.]
Oh, I detest them. 'Maybe' is useless, pointless breathing when what I want is answers. 'Maybe' gets under my skin. It was one of the few things that always did, even before.
[This he can say with cold certainty. It's a relief to find such steady ground for his footing, at this point.]
[voice ; private]
Still...what can he do? Keep talking, he supposes.]
"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar". And even I know most of what Freud came up with was thoroughly debunked as practically worthless garbage ages ago. Though...admittedly perhaps not the part about dream analysis.
[He's pretty certain, what sparingly little he remembers of Psych 101, of that. He finds himself wishing whatever odd connection it is they have, wasn't somehow inadvertently founded on the principle that he would never lie to her.]
Oh, I detest them. 'Maybe' is useless, pointless breathing when what I want is answers. 'Maybe' gets under my skin. It was one of the few things that always did, even before.
[This he can say with cold certainty. It's a relief to find such steady ground for his footing, at this point.]