04-26-2024, 04:20 AM
The reason Jude's lie comes so easily is because he is taking the truth and just tilting it sideways: certainly what he can do is alternative. It seems to involve energy. 'Consultant' can mean anything, including 'magician'. The only blatant untruth is that Jude is not from San Francisco. He was recently in San Francisco, but he wasn't born there. He was 'born' in Fairfax, Virginia. It doesn't sound as good.
As the fight begins, Jude is lifted into a state of ecstasy. If he was a normal person, he would be uncomfortable witnessing a lovers' quarrel, and at least somewhat self-conscious about being the obvious cause of it. Instead he sets the remote on the coffee table and leans his elbow on the arm of the couch. Now he watches Guthrie and Near as attentively as he was going to watch Drew Barrymore.
At long last Jude is glad he came here. He is grateful to Guthrie. Ten minutes ago it seemed like he had come back to Washington just to be humiliated again, his only recompense twenty-something dollars of DoorDash food. Hearing Near blurt out his like of boredom justifies Jude's own likeably-boring afternoons observing Near. He knows how Near feels, and he also knows that Near was a fool to admit the feeling.
Enthralled by the show, Jude has to blink himself back into participation when Guthrie breaks the fourth wall. "Hmm? Oh." He thinks for a second, and then decides on the worst way to put the truth is, "Well, I guess it depends how you define 'something going on'."
You shouldn't have laughed at me, Jude thinks of Near. You should have been nicer to me. This is what he gets.
As the fight begins, Jude is lifted into a state of ecstasy. If he was a normal person, he would be uncomfortable witnessing a lovers' quarrel, and at least somewhat self-conscious about being the obvious cause of it. Instead he sets the remote on the coffee table and leans his elbow on the arm of the couch. Now he watches Guthrie and Near as attentively as he was going to watch Drew Barrymore.
At long last Jude is glad he came here. He is grateful to Guthrie. Ten minutes ago it seemed like he had come back to Washington just to be humiliated again, his only recompense twenty-something dollars of DoorDash food. Hearing Near blurt out his like of boredom justifies Jude's own likeably-boring afternoons observing Near. He knows how Near feels, and he also knows that Near was a fool to admit the feeling.
Enthralled by the show, Jude has to blink himself back into participation when Guthrie breaks the fourth wall. "Hmm? Oh." He thinks for a second, and then decides on the worst way to put the truth is, "Well, I guess it depends how you define 'something going on'."
You shouldn't have laughed at me, Jude thinks of Near. You should have been nicer to me. This is what he gets.