Speech

Thank goodness I am deeply sincere, so I stopped laughing. He had dragged me along to this refined filth of a hotel, which aroused my truest false feeling. On the way to the hotel, he was staggering and I was. If my wish is at last coming true, he is going to spring on me something that will make me feel as helpless as a human being.

He’ll hear about it now.

A joke he told me had interfered with our breath­ing. Two women, I don’t know, across the street were being dragged into the same experience, too—by a joke, or by something such as a joke.

Maybe he has not figured out yet how much I wish to stiffly represent myself at coital functions as stiffly as I do here as I speak.