Overheard Starbuck

"He's not looking for a friend. He's already forgotten your name and if there's a woman nearby you're nothing more than furniture. You don't have any sisters; your wife's tied up with prior committments. There's no insult intended."
---"Funny, very funny.."
"Embrace him or more to the point what he stands for-- a reminder that sex between a man and a woman is more basic then gift economies, sexual servitude, currency or fashioned transactions. He/it is a force of nature, the last of a dying breed....Stay out of his way, lock up the livestock and keep the younguns indoors until his testosterone storm runs its course. ...Can you sense the women stirring? It'll be over soon."