[ ... Alright, that pretty much hits all his pings, and he sighs, almost as if in defeat.
If you asked him a year ago if he thought he'd be talking about books while lying naked in bed with the most gorgeous woman in the galaxy, he would've snorted his drink out of his nose [because you probably found him in a dive bar] and laughed in your face.
But here he is, and here they are, and now he has to struggle through a book, and she's gonna find out that he's a dumbass (well, moreso than she already thinks), and that's gonna be a total turn off for her, probably, because Maya's smart as hell; so she'll probably be seriously unimpressed when he doesn't recognize symbolism or "deeper themes" or whatever--
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If you asked him a year ago if he thought he'd be talking about books while lying naked in bed with the most gorgeous woman in the galaxy, he would've snorted his drink out of his nose [because you probably found him in a dive bar] and laughed in your face.
But here he is, and here they are, and now he has to struggle through a book, and she's gonna find out that he's a dumbass (well, moreso than she already thinks), and that's gonna be a total turn off for her, probably, because Maya's smart as hell; so she'll probably be seriously unimpressed when he doesn't recognize symbolism or "deeper themes" or whatever--
What he says instead is, ]
Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome.