Halfwit And WisdomEarlier this afternoon unlikely pals Halfwit and Charlie had a long heart-to-heart about how to deal with negativity in the House. Now Halfwit's been recounting this to Marcus during some Living-Area mantalk.
"It's like [Charlie's] scared of negative situations, and that, ironically enough, aggravates the thing," Halfwit said in his wise-old-sage voice. Marcus looked like he was asleep, but made some helpful noises of agreement.
"He's a good soul, that guy," continued Halfwit. "But I think he's also scared of appearing to be anything other than completely nice."
Marcus had a different take on it. "The best thing to do with regard to Charlie is to go out of your way to remove negative things from his path," he said confidently. "So much stuff goes over his head. He is what he is, and we can see things before he can see them, so it's down to us to make sure he has fun. He's here just to have fun, not to pick people's brains. Not in a bad way, but he is a completely one-dimensional character in here."
And this, coming from Marcus.
At this point Bea, who earlier told Marcus, Dogface and Rodrigo that she doesn't want to spend so much time with Halfwit, wandered through the Living Area to the Garden and announced that she was going for a smoke with Siavash. "OK," said Halfwit meekly, looking a bit sad not to be invited. There was a long pause as he looked forlornly into space, rubbing his beard.
"Oh God, I'm in a bit of a weird psychological place," he said finally with a stroke of his beard.
"Do tell," replied Marcus with his eyes shut.
"I want to get to know people a lot better but I'm not quite sure how to proceed with that. I feel a lot of emotion in my body today," began Halfwit, but as Charlie appeared to join the chat, Halfwit said no more about his inner angst.
Could Halfwit be picking up on the "stayaway" signals from his beloved Bea? Or is his brain actually melting after 59 days of philosophising?
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