JEREMIAS: When you took your AIDS test, you were both a little nervous. How did you feel today getting your results ?

DIANE: I had actually forgotten that we were going to get our test results today. When Mike and I went to the clinic, he was a "space case".

MIKE: I wasn’t that bad, I just knew that since I'd done some things that I haven't told Diane about, I was at increased risk of both contracting AIDS and of having her beat me up.

DIANE: We had to go in separately this time when we talked to the "counselor." I spent only a minute or so in there, because all she had to say was, "your results are negative." It took Mike about an hour and a half.

MIKE: So what - I was negative too. I just had a longer conversation than you.

DIANE: What were you talking about, then?

MIKE: Oh, nothing. We were just discussing the hermeneutics of the practice of taking political prisoners in contexts of martial law, as informed by the writings of Heidigger and Kant. Every time I want to discuss these sorts of things with you, you say you're too busy.

DIANE: Chill, ho. I was kidding you.

MIKE: This isn’t funny, this is serious! The fetishistic substitution of citizen for Other leads to an infinitely-regressing metonymy whereby all are transformed into That Not Seen.

DIANE: I know it’s serious. Lighten up – the last time you were this touchy is after you came back from Mexico. Are you sure you told me everything about the Mexico trip?

MIKE: You women are all the same. A guy takes something serious and you think he’s been fooling around. Conchita and I had a very deep relationship, but it was entirely on the Astral Plane.

JEREMIAS: I think I’ll leave you two alone to work this out.