he cast discriminating glances

when he wrote it and said it out loud it made him laugh
he uttered Thats preposterous

Is it  he countered Youll rememberIm sure the brouhaha you made of that sustained glance at college housing

I do

Brouhaha You fought it

I did However not on the grounds that I didnt think the thing existedI knew what they were getting at you had to be thick if you couldnt follow their reasoningridiculous as they may have been to try and qualify it My objection . .
. . Youre vehement objection

I wasnt that bad

Think Recall the room Recall that management had the chairs up set in it in a ring so everyone could see everyone else  not the usual rows of chairs descending from the lectern from where they addressed you

I dont have to recall  Youre me

Then you know you were vehement

I was exercised I . . 
. . You exercised the hell out of that management team

They were being obtusethe setup was outlandish Sign a legallybinding jobthreatening document that you would notwould not   what was it . . 
. . Participate

Yes Participate Asif it was a group thingparticipation

But you understood what they were getting atthe underlying undergirding  And yet you admit in writing saying aloud youre able to cast a discriminating glance

I had a discriminating glance then                                                                                                      

You did  yet despite thatat the risk of losing your job you fought them on their premise of a sustained glance

We fought it because management wanted employees to sign and attest that we knew exactly what it was despite them offering no definition in the text A sustained glance  And they insisted theyd know it when they saw it Purely subjective Utterly inane And they could fire an employee for it if accused or if management witnessed the act of a sustained glanceChrist

Not many men were employed You were the only man in the officethe others were groundsmen or physical plant maintenance men The majority employed were women  They signed it quickly  Without a chirp

The men signed it too  without a chirp

You chirped

I signed it

You signed it because they said if you didnt that was grounds to fire you  What did they . .
. . Now youre the funny guy They called it insubordination  Ive never been not to that countrythat nation

Funny So you signed it and beneath your signature in big block letters you printed UNDER DURESS

Yes  That was inspired  I dont remember where that came from do you

Do we  I dont Though we were inspired 

We were fuming

We were fuming

I wish I knew or remembered where it came from It was like a burning bullet point

It was like a fucking Burning Bush commandment

Christ it was  It was illuminating

And they said You can’t submit that. You can’t write that you’re under duress.

They threatened my job Thats duress

Brilliant

Yes Though we cant take credit for it

No We must have read it somewhere

Yathink

he laughed 

and he laughed

and they laughed together mirthfully

a discriminating glance

it was a practised glancehed been practicing it since he was a young boy  glancing up over the top of his science fiction novel as he walked 

his glances acquired and distilled more information than when he looked hard at something or at something for a long time 

looking hard bored his eye
                           and often a singular aspect one detail in his field of vision attracted his eyedominated it  and languishing on it he despysed everything else

the distillate a flash point coalesced and screamed and streamed its cognitive information across his nervous muscular and skeletal systems and when it began to subside he glanced again took another pic

some people have a remarkable sense of smellsense of tastehearing some were sensual mages adepts adroit habile savants
        he had to trip through a thicket of nouns and adjectives-fashioned-into-nouns to recall savant 

senses practised

senses honed

a discriminating glance        

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