Rankings

We rank our friends in order of their intelligence. Then we rank them in order of their melancholia, and wonder if there's a correlation. Then we rank them according to their punctuality, cross-referring our results to our previous findings.

Our brighter friends are always late, we decide, always disorganised. Our brighter friends are melancholy, which is probably why they can never keep their appointments. How many times have they left us standing, looking at our watches? W. always smiles on such occasions. There are more important things than meeting us, he says. Much more important things!