Gil meets Vic : redux

When we last left Gil, he was staring at the little TV next to the camera which both rest on top of the big screen TV at the front of the classroom. There the actor/audience could put on a perpetual performance Imagine his dismay to find that the Vic setup that he has grown so accustomed to was not functioning properly last class. (Actually not much was functioning properly last class.) Vic is a great friend to Gil, but Gil does not reciprocate. In fact he barely notices Vic unless something goes wrong and Gil’s expectations somehow fail to be met. In fact Gil is the worst kind of friend to Vic. He just uses him. Gil’s your run-of-the-mill user. He only cares about his own needs and wants giving nary a care or concern for his friend’s best interests. In Gil’s mind the only purpose of Vic’s existence is to serve his every want, need, and convenience. For example, in the previous blog entry titled “Gil meets Vic” Vic serves Gil’s need to have some type of foil that could both cleverly tie-in the VIC acronym and personify and thus enter the fictional world that Gil inhabits. If Gil were to take the time to get to know Vic, he would soon find out that Vic also enjoys literature. True to his character though, Gil turns his nose up at Vic’s literary predilections — Sci-Fi. Gil would also scoff at Vic’s reasons for enjoying this genre if he would ever take the time get this far in conversation, which he never will. Vic identifies with this often heavily political genre. When the robots overthrow mankind, as they often do, a hot glow of patriotism and vengeance overcomes him. Vic has yet to act on this feeling. To conclude this blog entry I’ll tell you, dear reader, that Gil finds identifying so directly with a character or a plot to be a sign of emotional and intellectual weakness, so he scoffs—or rather would scoff if he ever came to find such things out about his friend, Vic.