We have learned that Bogie’s gin-and-tonic once dreamed of being a firework, but Gloria’s gin-and-tonic, if she were aware of this, would surely find it pretentious. They are liquid in a glass only as wide as a mouth, nothing more, but nothing less. They are united by low places, flowing always to the bottom, and then if they can, flowing even lower. If he could simply accept this, he’d be a whole lot happier. But of course that’s just her two cents.⠀