[Everyone from Baltimore is allowed to have special time with metaphors. If Will Graham can continue daily without any mentions that his sometimes veer into the bizarre and illogical, it's only fair.
What's not quite so fair is Chilton's mention of relief. No, not at all! That is not relieving, that is the opposite! That's a paper cut! That's not balm! Will will be relieved when Chilton stops putting himself in the situation where sidestepping the devil is necessary in the first place, but hell if he can say that so directly. Not right now. Not when he's just agreed to the idea that he'd been at their devil's side as such. He doesn't want to get into a spat about what gives him the right, what's his angle, who is he to chastise?]
There is a thrill that comes from getting away with what others assume you cannot, in my experience.
[Until it guts him. But how could he be making a negative statement about Chilton's tendencies when in the same breath he claims to have gotten a high doing something identical, hm? Unless Chilton finds being in a similar boat as Will Graham negative, of course.]
Is that why you do it?
[Is that why you play with fire until you realize you're going to be dragged over hot coals? And then he runs, has run in the past. Right to Will Graham. The "savior" who doesn't run from danger when it becomes too great, who runs to embrace it. Since they're being so open and honest, why not ask? It's nicer than making statements of how he sees it, what comes to his mind immediately...and it's always generous to hand the microphone back instead of wailing into it himself.]
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What's not quite so fair is Chilton's mention of relief. No, not at all! That is not relieving, that is the opposite! That's a paper cut! That's not balm! Will will be relieved when Chilton stops putting himself in the situation where sidestepping the devil is necessary in the first place, but hell if he can say that so directly. Not right now. Not when he's just agreed to the idea that he'd been at their devil's side as such. He doesn't want to get into a spat about what gives him the right, what's his angle, who is he to chastise?]
There is a thrill that comes from getting away with what others assume you cannot, in my experience.
[Until it guts him. But how could he be making a negative statement about Chilton's tendencies when in the same breath he claims to have gotten a high doing something identical, hm? Unless Chilton finds being in a similar boat as Will Graham negative, of course.]
Is that why you do it?
[Is that why you play with fire until you realize you're going to be dragged over hot coals? And then he runs, has run in the past. Right to Will Graham. The "savior" who doesn't run from danger when it becomes too great, who runs to embrace it. Since they're being so open and honest, why not ask? It's nicer than making statements of how he sees it, what comes to his mind immediately...and it's always generous to hand the microphone back instead of wailing into it himself.]