When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to __inety k_ and __ quarter of a mill_, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...
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he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to __inety k_ and __ quarter of a mill_, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...
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