Vanity. Ares

moment, as if becoming tired of Connor’s
objections. Cesare continued in the subsequent
silence: “Can you elaborate on why you thought
he was in fact bad news?” he said. “He made
some very wrong jokes. I was having a super
sensitive discussion with a friend and he butt in
and made a remark that I thought was at least
homophobic,” explained Carly looking at me as
she spoke, and when she finished her words they
were met with whispered gasps from the
congregation, which sounded like a gentle
session of the speaking in tongues I had become
familiar with at the Olatende’s Church. The
sound: “Hmmmmbalalahuh!” came to my mind
fleetingly.
Upon being gently prompted by Cesare
with a flick of his wrist, Carly happily added:
“Basically, we had a disagreement where he
seemed to conclude that a woman, even with the
use of apparatus, could not rape. I completely
disagreed as the woman I am and I felt that this
was discriminatory and homophobic.” “Ladies
and gentlemen of the jury, find that the
defendant has in fact been one to hold hateful
assertions on such issues of sexuality for a time.
This corroborates that, at least his ethics are
dubious,” declared Cesare, and so gentle were
his skills in the tete the tete of court
proceedings: if I were watching him on television
I would have been engrossed by the level of skill
he utilised along with his cultured style. I
remember taking notice of the word dubious as
it was said with such emphasise and loud aplomb
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