"Can't promise there won't be people who react poorly to you being yourself, but there are always people like that. This is a good time to be the creative sort, or the intellectual sort, though. And a good time to just be the kind of person who isn't like anyone else you'll meet."
All the reassurances in the world aren't going to convince him until he experiences it for himself, she knows, but she wants him to at least feel comfortable trying to make a go of it. (She also bets that a few days immersing himself in popular culture will prove that there are plenty of people out there bucking convention a lot harder than Ginsberg is likely to do.)
"You know, I haven't had a real vacation in ages. I think I deserve one, considering I just crammed months of time in an alternate dimension into what everyone here is going to think is an afternoon at the cinema. Think I'll take a few days, and give you the grand tour of Cardiff. Sound like fun? Could even pop iver to London if you wanted."
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All the reassurances in the world aren't going to convince him until he experiences it for himself, she knows, but she wants him to at least feel comfortable trying to make a go of it. (She also bets that a few days immersing himself in popular culture will prove that there are plenty of people out there bucking convention a lot harder than Ginsberg is likely to do.)
"You know, I haven't had a real vacation in ages. I think I deserve one, considering I just crammed months of time in an alternate dimension into what everyone here is going to think is an afternoon at the cinema. Think I'll take a few days, and give you the grand tour of Cardiff. Sound like fun? Could even pop iver to London if you wanted."