Keiko only spends a few days at a time on the station. I'm the one living in those quarters, and if I want to set up a little workshop in the bedroom—
You set up a workshop in the bedroom?
Yeah. I don't use it when she's visiting.
No, of course not.
She says I'm trying to live like a bachelor again, that I'm expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.
Now that is ridiculous.
That's what I said!
I mean, if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you are actually expressing...a desire to be closer to her...during her absence. It's quite touching, really.
Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand. Why can't she see that? Why can't she be more like—
More like?
[Beat] Uh, a man. Y—you know, more like a man.
So...you wish that Keiko...was a man.
I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that's what I wish.
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