He’s gone to Bulgaria. To instruct the Bulgarians on how to be better business people. What a joke.

 

I think this counts as a love affair.

 

Do you think we’re good for each other?

 

At least we can share the despair. Lighten it. pass it between us. Outdo each other.

 

You need a baby.

Fuck off.

 

See, I like mean girls. Always did. I like bad assess. Moody people.

 

Why does everything have to burn out?

Are you talking about your marriage again?

 

You’re gloomier than I am. You should be studying philosophy, not me.

I don’t need philosophy. I have my own gloom.

 

Don’t you ever just want a lovely time?

Laughter.

 

I want to be with a Catholic. A woman of absolute fucking faith. Someone who can really pray. Someone who’ll put up a cross on the wall – just that, very simply. A woman of strong and simple faith. Who isn’t all theological about it. From eastern Europe, or something.

A reactionary you mean. Someone to believe for you … Well, I don’t believe in anything.

I’d guessed that, Ms Nihilism.

 

We’re depraved, aren’t we? We’re depraved and we love our depravity. It’s what gives us the feeling of being alive. But we’re not actually alive. God, we’re so damned.

 

I want to repent. I want to fall to my knees and say sorry.

What’s stopping you?

I’m stopping me … My sister had this great religious phase. It was while she was at university. She ended up living with these nuns.

Fuck.

And we weren’t brought up religiously.

Fuck.