It is both late and early, depending.
cog (responding): “In vino veritas”?
cog (laughing): Yeah, well... anybody who subscribes to that nonsensical concept clearly hasn’t spent enough time drinking.
deleted name: Correct, because drunks are somehow incapable of lying or embellishment.
cog: Hang on, I’ll tell you-, here’s a universal truth, no, no, hang on...
collecting his words to order
cog: ..the blowjo-
cog Whoah whoah whoah whoah, a degree less gauche if you’d care.
cog (sincerely): What?
cog: Just, maybe... say instead “fellatio”.
cog: Okay, okay, so... fellatio is every woman’s secret weapon to separate any man from her husband.
laughter as the others parse his words
cog: Wait, no, no... Wait, from his wife, from his wife.
The rest regard each other.
deleted name (setting down his emptied shotglass for the last time this time): Or... perhaps just you from yours.
cog (responding): “In vino veritas”?
cog (laughing): Yeah, well... anybody who subscribes to that nonsensical concept clearly hasn’t spent enough time drinking.
deleted name: Correct, because drunks are somehow incapable of lying or embellishment.
cog: Hang on, I’ll tell you-, here’s a universal truth, no, no, hang on...
collecting his words to order
cog: ..the blowjo-
cog Whoah whoah whoah whoah, a degree less gauche if you’d care.
cog (sincerely): What?
cog: Just, maybe... say instead “fellatio”.
cog: Okay, okay, so... fellatio is every woman’s secret weapon to separate any man from her husband.
laughter as the others parse his words
cog: Wait, no, no... Wait, from his wife, from his wife.
The rest regard each other.
deleted name (setting down his emptied shotglass for the last time this time): Or... perhaps just you from yours.
