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being excited about it. And I was glad Lee put this on because it gave us a focus, a distraction from the fact that here we were in a car, back in each other’s lives.
    So now what?
    â€œI don’t know if I remember it or I just think I do,” said Lee. “But he had such a nice voice, the way he talked.”
    â€œHe did.”
    I had heard snippets of interviews with him here and there, but I had never listened at length. I tended to think wit had to be surgical, swift, and a bit cruel, but Jesse’s was lingering, it had warmth.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  I have to say, you don’t seem particularly interested in playing a game with journalists, the way some of your, well, peers [chuckle] do.There are some notoriously prickly recording artists out there, and one or two of them have even deigned to come on this show. But you’re very open and I don’t feel like you’re putting me on.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Why would I put you on? [Laughter again] It’s like this. If I said something in a song, I needed a song to say it. So I get how it’s a drag to be asked to explain yourself beyond the song. But that doesn’t mean I can’t sit here and have a perfectly fine conversation with you about extraterrestrials.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Your fans certainly feel they understand your songs. They’re extremely devoted to you.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Yes. Yeah.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  You seem to inspire a great deal of fantasy, of fantasizing.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  They’re very imaginative, the fans. Very creative. They do like to imprint me into their fantasies.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  I want to read an excerpt of this—it’s from a fan letter that was sent to our show. This woman—I say woman though I don’t know how old she is—this woman writes: “In the dream, Jesse is waiting in line behind me at the airport and the line isn’t moving so he leans over my shoulder and suggests we get out of there. He takes my hand and all of a sudden there’s a moving sidewalk that brings us all the way to this beautiful old palace with loads of rooms and I get lost. It’s also a little like the White House. I pass a lot of people wearing suits and ID badges. They are looking at me because I am running down this marble hallway and I can’t find Jesse anywhere. Then he pulls me through a secret door and he says he has disguises for us, the disguises that we’re going to need. He asks me to help him take off his clothes.” I’ll stop there. It gets considerably more detailed. Does it ever shock you?
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Uh, it doesn’t shock me. I think that’s what, uh, performance does. What it can do, when it’s good. It creates a space for the imagination. I love that I can do that for people. It can get a little heavy, though. Sometimes. Sure.
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Does it ever leave you feeling, well, I imagine it might leave you feeling rather blank?
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Uh, depleted, sometimes. I don’t know about blank. You know, that’s interesting about the disguises. I’d like to know what they were!
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Jesse Parrish, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank you again for coming on the show this evening. It’s been, well, what would you say it’s been?
    Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  It’s been a pleasure.
    That one moment when Linda came on— Hi, Jesse. Hi, Linda. You could hear how coupled up they were at that time, inside a world of two, looking out. I said as much to Lee.
    â€œI know. I kind of resent it. Their twoness. It reminds me I’m essentially back where I was at twenty-five, only now I’m