George feels flattered and excited...He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him. - Christopher Isherwood

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Christopher, like many other writers, was shockingly ignorant of the objective world, except where it touched his own experience. When he had to hide his ignorance beneath a veneer, he simply consulted someone who could supply him with the information he needed.