[ What strikes V most is the reluctance to make this admittance, and then doing it anyway. Maybe this talk of sobriety should have more gravity, but V doesn't know what can lurk behind that word. What he knows is that there are many people in many stories who drink to keep the ghosts at bay, they're just usually metaphorical. Is it more reasonable, when the ghosts are real? It doesn't make it any less of a tragic device, but having tragedy in your life is also something V relates to entirely too much. He puts one of his own elbows on the table, resting his chin in it and watching the other man with a look of mild consideration. ]
You hide that from people.
[ It's not really a question, and V is thinking about what he'd hide from people himself. He'd told Klaus his story, but has been in deep consideration about beginning to lie. Telling new people that he's such and such age, from such and such place just to avoid the questions and the vulnerability. ]
What is it they [ 'People' ] think you should do instead?
[ Why else hide it, if there wasn't something to be avoided. He may be naive about the full implications of an addiction, but he's sharp enough. ]
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You hide that from people.
[ It's not really a question, and V is thinking about what he'd hide from people himself. He'd told Klaus his story, but has been in deep consideration about beginning to lie. Telling new people that he's such and such age, from such and such place just to avoid the questions and the vulnerability. ]
What is it they [ 'People' ] think you should do instead?
[ Why else hide it, if there wasn't something to be avoided. He may be naive about the full implications of an addiction, but he's sharp enough. ]