Stan
Have you ever seen the movie Emmanuelle
Yes I saw it in Paris some years ago
Did you like it
Yes
You
I liked it but still thought it to be old fashioned
Explain
That world does not exist any more
It was a world of innocent pleasures
When did you see it Jane
The other night on television
Do they still show it
It appears so yes
What do you think has changed
I think the world has become more serious
Why as we have more comforts these days
But strangely this has made people less satisfied with their lot
Want want want it is a must have society
I agree
Look out of the window Jane
What do you see
St P
The passing trains
The skyline of London
What has changed
From 1974
How would I know
I was not around then
Just think
Well these apartments would have not been here
It was very industrial around here
St P was on its last legs
Look at it now
I agree it is superb
The trains only went towards the Midlands
The whole thing was dying
And then they built the channel tunnel
One could travel to France via Dover
In 1974
Train Ferry Train
Or catch the hovercraft from Rammytown
Rammytown
Ramsgate
Would you like to have travelled like Emmanuelle
Maybe
But I thought she was a victim
Do not give me that shit Jane
It was her sexual journey
From a male gaze
She was exploited
Fuck off Jane
She was used
You are beginning to sound like a dyke
A feminist Stan
I know that you are not a feminist
I am
Only when it suits you
You are a pig
A pig yes
But an honest pig
Stan is a pig and Jane is confused
Why do we argue
Because you annoy me
And you annoy me
Would you have liked to have lived in those innocent times
The 1970s were not innocent far from it
But yes I would have liked to have been Emmanuelle
Really
Do you want to know a secret Stan
Yes I like your secrets
When I was at college
I lived with Penny and Jo
In Kingston
I know
But what I did not tell you was we had an Emmanuelle chair
Really
Was it yours
No it came with the flat
Did you use it
Sometimes
Did anything happen
Such as
Anything erotic
Not really I tended to sit in it with my legs curled beneath me
Doing what
Reading a book normally
That is a dog end story Jane
You have not asked me what I was wearing
What were you wearing
Usually my red silk gown
What did the others think
I do not think that they noticed
Where is this going Jane
Stan I know that you are writing this fiction
But I told you a fib
That being
I gave you the impression that I had seen the movie recently
But that was a lie
Really
Yes as we had a video copy of the movie in the flat
Jo’s girlfriend had stolen it from Blockbusters as a dare
A thrill steal
I watched it one afternoon when the flat was vacant
I sat in the Emmanuelle chair and watched the movie
Did it turn you on
It was not just the movie that turned me on but the music
I found the music so seductive
What happened
Guess
Those were more innocent times Stan
You were in your final year at Kings
We had not met
But our ships were closing in on each other