Conversely, why would you assume that I plan to pay for them?
[ Though — he does intend that. So it's a fair question. He doesn't consider himself a charitable person, particularly or otherwise. Whatever the man's levity, his easiness that made him seem more familiar than reality, it couldn't be called a conversation between friends. Not even between acquaintances. They were strangers, and frankly, he (probably) wouldn't have paid for a proper friend's footwear in his world.
Then again, it was difficult to conceive of a comparable situation.
It may have something to do with a burgeoning sense of — no, he'd like to keep it undefined, however at odds with his adapt-facts-manage-self approach to all things. One could hardly adapt without identifying the fact, but a feeling isn't necessarily a fact.
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[ Though — he does intend that. So it's a fair question. He doesn't consider himself a charitable person, particularly or otherwise. Whatever the man's levity, his easiness that made him seem more familiar than reality, it couldn't be called a conversation between friends. Not even between acquaintances. They were strangers, and frankly, he (probably) wouldn't have paid for a proper friend's footwear in his world.
Then again, it was difficult to conceive of a comparable situation.
It may have something to do with a burgeoning sense of — no, he'd like to keep it undefined, however at odds with his adapt-facts-manage-self approach to all things. One could hardly adapt without identifying the fact, but a feeling isn't necessarily a fact.
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If it comes to that, I don't have a reason.