they finished dinner  barbecued ribeye green peppers sweet onions green salad sliced tomatoes basil drizzled with olive oil

                       sipped beers watched the fire in the firepit and spoke

they were incessant talkers  tireless  swimming among subjects as bright as colourful and as plentiful as a pit of childrens playballs

                     until subjects  politics  tiltedtipped them darkly and they were forced to swim in the chilly viscous effluvium of their unfortunate reality 

that talk forced them to cleanse their palates with tumblers of chilled Laphroaig Islay Single Malt

Laphroaig Islay Single Malt his brother-in-law would say  Sounds like an incantation his brother-in-law said it every time he served him  an assurance and as consistent as the tides the moon as their enthusiastic conversation of women once enjoyed  or never   unquenched flames

. . . when a corporations model is do more with less specialists fall away  then were left bereaved with soddy halfass work  no one takes pridetakes ownership of their labour  they produce a crappy product  as an adjective chinese  Quantity Cheap Replaceable  Are you replaceable  Is life so cheap . . . He couldn’t find his ass with both hands in a sunlit room and someone calling to him You’re cold, cold, you’re getting colder . . . Reparations . . . It’s ridiculous to consider; how would you disperse it properly? . . . If its given to black people  to black communities  its dispersed properly Seems to me few in the past were interested that black slave labour poweredhad powered the nation and that even fewer white men made fantastic fortunesmade enormous money by their cruelty  on the backs of other human beings . . .

Do you know what bliss is

Bliss?  I can think of many things that are blissful.

For example

Example. Albeit unfortunate. That I had to say I love you, I love you; however I can’t say that I like you at all.  After the fact I felt relief, and bliss.

Ouch

Tit for tat.

coyly Are we slipping wily back into our conversation of sex

No. Cryinoutloud.  Bliss. What is bliss to you? or did you simply elicit it, invoke it, to provoke me?

Youre glass is empty Care to be touched up  a refill  then afterwards Ill tell you my bliss

Ah. You’re implying that a refill is required if you’re going to divulge your bliss.

I hadnt considered that  however now that youve broached it  yes Youll have to be touched up . . isnt that a more attractive way of saying refilled

It is. Yes, would you?

I can

he poured his brother-in-law another three fingers  poured one liberally for himself  he was home  he didnt have to worry about driving  for the fact of the matter his brother-in-law didnt have to worry about driving either  he could crash the night on the couch  it was a small one-bedroom house barely large enough for himself and his bookshis library his antilibrary

There you go  then he held his glass up his brother-in-law raised his they tapped them together  Heres mud in your eye

Yes. Mud in your eye.

they sipped

You know where thats from

You’re gonna tell me it’s from German or the Jews; they have a word or a phrase for everything, right? that’s your contention . .

. . They do  But no 

What remains

Remains? Okay.

The Bible . . 

. . Give that man a cigar

Are you kidding me?

No  Im not kidding you

And?

I wanted suspense to build a bit . . it is a wonderful thing to share knowledge that someone doesnt have . . 

. . That someone is ignorant of . . 

. . Of course dispatch ignorance with extreme prejudice  I wish it were that easy

And?

Christ youre impatient Ill bet you give lousy head . . 

. . Whatthefuck you talking about now . . 

. . Patience My buddy Bobby always said All comes to he who waits I think he got that from spiders although I know otherwise

In the Bible too?

Youre hanging around your sisters too much All their intellect reason is formed in the miserable crucible the weakflimsy bowl of the Bible  They ought to get their heads up and look around 

You continue to say; you harp on me.

I harp Theyre adultstheyre big girls they can withstand your disagreementyour atheism Wrong How do you say . . ah  your agnosticism

Violet Fane

Excuse me?

Violet Fane  A pseudonym 

                             Easier to remember Violet Fane She wrote All good things come to those who wait

I sexualized it as I am wont I usually sexualise things Brings my comment to the forefront of any conversation

Sex usually does.

Better than blood

Than blood?

If it bleeds it leads Id rather watchread sex  than murder mayhem bloodletting

Ah. I follow.

Yes I lead by example

Youre lost arent you

Frankly I am. I don’t know where we are in this conversation.

I apologise  Ive lathered it with incidentals that occur to meyou know me although Ive laid unraveled a ball of thread to help find our way out of the Minotaurs lair Im a modernday Theseus the Zeus Never use breadcrumbs like Hansel and Gretel Youll get lost then a ghastly nasty witch will eat you

There’s that. Care to bring me back up to speed?

Mud in your eye

Ohman, yes, mud in your eye. What about mud in your eye?

Biblical

Great, of course it is.

Jesus spit in the earth and rubbed the mud in a blind mans eye to heal restore his vision

Mud in your eye

We are visual being humans  visual human beings  

Or what is voyeurism for

Man oh man, you're something else.

Biblical

        An not that Im biblical by any means but to answer your question in regards to my bliss  as I understand your bliss came about My bliss . . my bliss  is entering my home my livingroom without contending with the harping carping  the shrill of television

Television asif it were some critical lifeline  necessary  bloodline   that we cant do without

There are other sources of information and knowledge

An those I employ an enjoy

My bliss is no television

2140,  Sunday,  23  6. 19

1139,  Twosday,  25  6. 19

Daughters  City Song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NB7RBZ1yGY 

Umberto Eco  Antilibrary  https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/  

Daughter  Doing the Right Thing  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAp-Qdb_js