love or nothing
In Watch on the Rhine (1943; screenplay by Dashiell Hammett from a play by Lillian Hellman) the penniless Count remarks,
Blecher, we do not like each other.
The Nazi to whom he hopes to sell information replies,
But that will not stand in the way of our doing business.
To link such a sentiment to fascism implies a remarkable kind of snobbery.
dream geography
In a dream, while strolling among bookshops and the like, I chance to meet someone who hates me but is constrained to be polite. With a venomous smile that person asks, the better to avoid them, on what streets one is most likely to meet me. I name two streets in Oakland, one in Berkeley and one in San Francisco.
On waking, I remember that none of those streets exists.