Aphorism I
"We learn an overwhelming majority of a person's nature in how they behave in cases of forced intimacy, such as public buses, government offices, etc. And this is no small reason why we universally revile the time we are forced to remain in these situations--for who enjoys that curiously prone and vulnerable performance we are forced to improvise, never prepared with any clue to the nature of our prospective audience. So it is our raw skills we must rely on. How utterly terrifying to be oneself. Conversely humans find small groups of friends and only then are they content: an audience for which they are consistently prepared. But when a friend sees that which makes you most yourself how swiftly we view them as enemies...human mirrors from which we avert our eyes."
-american libertine
