Friday 9 January 2009

Hell is other people

This is a week packed with social engagements that I have no real enthusiasm for. I know that i am not the world's most sociable of animals but I do make an effort, and when invited, it is polite to accept invitations. It just so happens that every night this week apart from sunday, has been a night out.
I have, in the past been a guest at a dinner party when all i wanted to do was be instantly transported to anywhere else in the world that where i was, but i won't talk about that. Such things happen and sometimes we learn from them.
Last night's dinner party was, shall we say odd. The people at the table had very little in common with each other, apart from a shared part of history, and so that neutral territory tended to be the main topic of conversation. Anything outside of that box was apparently a no-go area, and although the food and wine were very good, the whole evening was reminiscent of 'Huis Clos' or 'In Camera', a play by Jean Paul Sartre, in which 3 disparate souls are gathered together in a waiting/drawing room. They have little in common but a complex triangle of lust and hate, and they know that this is forever. They are in hell and their hell is each other.
Sartre was an astute man, and i suspect that he must have found himself in similar situations to that of last night. Who knows, maybe I could find a story there too.
Four down, two to go!!

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