conversatioNs

N: You know Hitler, right?
T: Not personally, but…
N: What?
T: Doesn’t matter. Yeah. Hitler.
N: Well, apparently he’s not dead.
T: …
N: Yeah, I was watching this thing on the Discovery Channel, and they found a body, right, but they’re not sure that it’s his, because it was all burnt and that.
T: Sure. It could’ve been the keyboard player from ‘Sparks’.
N: Sparks?
T: Yeah.
N: …
T: They were a band in the eighties, and the keyboard player had a funny little Hitler-moustache.
N: …
T: It was a joke.
N: But was he even alive back then?
T: Almost certainly not.
N: Well then how could it be him?
T: Sure. It was a joke based in absurdity. Apologies. So, you were saying that Hitler is still alive…

N: What star sign are you?
T: Leo.
N: Oh, that makes sense. You’re quite temperamental.
T: Do you really believe in all that nonsense?
N: Yeah.
T: …
N: It’s true! I have a friend who’s a Leo, and one day she’ll be happy and the next day she’s all sad and depressed.
T: Well maybe she’s bipolar.
N: Which one’s that?
T: What?
N: Is that the scales?

[This time, with N’s friend J]:
N: Do you play anything?
T: You two saps.
J: What?
T: The ‘Utusaps’. They're like Amazonian panpipes. I picked some up when I was in South America.
N: Oh really?
T: Yeah, I play them every opportunity I get.
N: What do they sound like?
T: What do you two saps sound like?
N: Yeah.
T: You two saps sound like a couple of drowned cats.
J: Really!?
T: Yeah. Quite embarrassing really. But they're really easy to play.
N: Oh.
T: Do you two play anything?
N+J: No.