Christopher Isherwood Quotes

The Really Destructive Feature Of Their Relationship Is Its Inherent Quality Of Boredom. It Is Quite Natural For Peter Often To Feel Bored With Otto - They Have Scarecely A Single Interest In Common - But Peter, For Sentimental Reasons, Will Never Admit That This Is So. When Otto, Who Has No Such Motives For Pretending, Says, "It's So Dull Here!" I Invariably See Peter Wince And Looked Pained. Yet Otto Is Actually Far Less Often Bored Than Peter Himself; He Finds Peter's Company Genuinely Amusing, And Is Quite Glad To Be With Him Most Of The Day. Often, When Otto Has Been Chattering Rubbish For An Hour Without Stopping, I Can See That Peter Really Longs For Him To Be Quiet And Go Away. But To Admit This Would Be, In Peter's Eyes, A Total Defeat, So He Only Laughs And Rubs His Hands, Tacitly Appealing To Me To Support Him In His Pretense Of Finding Otto Inexhaustibly Delightful And Funny.

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