issues were only marginally successful. As a result, it seemed to the
senator that Kazem was earnest and unassuming. He became more curious
and anxious to help these pariahs as a result.
--And can you be more specific on how this was done?
--It's rather mundane. I don't wish to really.
--Human studies and our intellectual copulation require more
information. One would have to be ignorant to not know that or male.
--He chitchatted, my dear, in a logical sequence that was a bit
desultory at times. Humans call such an inexact order "variation."
After he told the location of where they were living and that the move
had taken place because of Kumpee's desire to be near his girlfriend,
he answered the senator's question on what his brothers were doing in
their state of unemployment (Jatupon with his comic books and Suthep
with his snookers). Then he moved to large ideas outside of his
personal life: the upcoming elections for prime minister, the question
of the government's role for the flood victims in Hattayai, and if the
senator would run for re-election in a couple years. It was done to
create a mystique about he and his brothers as well as to elicit the
approval of the senator who preferred people who could break out of
their own skins. It was deferential. It was noble. It was all of
those things that were manipulation in a consummate performance. Kazem
played the part so well that he even began to think that he was this
shy, vulnerable, unpretentious, and caring person despite trying
circumstances.
--Did he directly attempt to exploit the man's feelings of sympathy for
their plight or the senator's loneliness?
--In some respects he did. He reminisced about his mother whom this
high governing uncle had sympathy. The senator of course entertained
this sympathy because his wife (their mother's sister) had always
carped, disparaged, and vilified her for such a marriage to an