“What do you do?”

I’m a technical writer.

“Do you write other stuff?”

A bit, sometimes.

“Poetry?”

No Poetry.” I laugh.

“Fiction?”

Yeah, Some.

“Do you read philosophy too?”

A bit.

“Oh, good! Materalist or Idealist?”

Materialist.

“Who do you read?”

I’m a bit of an unreformed Deluzian.

“Deleuze wasn’t a materialist.”

Yeah, but he wanted to be. Really bad.

“There’s that. I’ve been reading Hegel recently.”

Oh, really.