Two friends, on imaginary relatives.

Cecily: This Saturday, I’m having drinks with my Parisian “uncle” who wants to be the godfather of my children (that do not exist yet).

Santiago: Is that “uncle” as imaginary as your children or does he really exist? Standard question from a pharmacist working in a mental health drug company.

Two friends on movements.

Raj: Hippies were a real counter culture. They were a movement against something.

Cecily: And hipsters are simply trying to move the world towards typewriters.

Two friends, on family

Cecily: My father arrives in Paris tomorrow.

Alexander: I will pray for you, to whatever agnostic force exists in the beyond.

Cecily: You need not do that. My father is lovely.

Alexander: Oh really? I thought you too suffered from a case of « batshit family ».

Cecily: I do have a batshit family, but probably not in your sense. We’re high-functioning on the bad-shit spectrum.

Alexander, on love and Portland.

Alexander: I think this is the death of me — falling in love with a man on the West Coast and relaxing further into the blissful black hole of soft drugs and rampant socially acceptable alcoholism that is Portland.

Alexander, on June.

Alexander: And my semi-obscure French word for June is rightfully, in my opinion anyway, “frisson”.