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22 // Dictated

It's over, I take it?

[He could look himself, but it would take more effort than he can currently muster. He was going to have to find better ways of blotting out the things he didn't want to deal with--the hangovers afterwards were always unpleasant]

How many of you even understood what you were celebrating?

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Nada.

Enlighten us.

I wasn't offering an explanation.

Wasn't that rhetorical?

I was wondering how many people had a habit of involving themselves in things they did not knew nothing about.

It was a party. We love parties.

And carelessness, it would seem.

[Not that he'd try to change anyone's behavior. He just wanted to account for it, for his own reasons.]

Ignorance makes the world go round.

Unfortunately.

Would you rather see it stop?

I have no love for it.

But you're part of it too.

That doesn't make me partial to it.

You're not partial to yourself?

I'm not a narcissist.

Everyone's a narcissist.

That depends on your definition.

Loving yourself. How can you not?

You're all you ever truly know.

A matter of perspective.

[In his experiences, some people didn't really know themselves at all]

Sometimes ignorance is better.

I think we've come full circle.

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