Paul is a young man. A student.
He is not like everybody else. He listens to fusion jazz, his clothes are from charity shops, by principle he doesn't watch films made in Hollywood, he's a vegetarian, he reads Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. In his free time he studies Icelandic, and he spends his holidays in Denmark. He loves nature (although it is more a moral love of nature than actual contact with the thing itself). He even considers converting to Hinduism or painting his bicycle yellow. He is a truly interesting person.
I met John the other day. Paul is our mutual friend. We were all in the same class in school. I asked John how Paul was doing. "Oh, he's doing fine", John said. I met him a cocktail party a few days ago. He has decided to change from languages to law. There's more money in that he claims. And you wouldn't recognise him. He wears fancy clothes now. He is off to Monaco and the French Riviera tomorrow, for a holiday."
I must have looked a bit perplexed. This didn't sound like the Paul I knew.
"He has a new girlfriend now", John explained. "She studies business administration and her father is a manager in a big company. And she is really beautiful - hot and sexy."
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