Just because he 'gets' House's ornery manner and unrelenting cynicism, doesn't he mean he comprehends the doctor. On a singular basis, person by person, Amory routinely fails at deriving more than a superficial reading. He says he understands human nature on a whole, but people, individuals? He's grown up too self-involved for that.
"If I make an appointment, a proper one," he pauses, "Will you take it?"
To confront and dodge the point is a contradiction. To confront someone, you have to open up a part of yourself, to supply fuel for your conviction. Otherwise it's just hollow, meaningless bullshit. But Amory's not so good at that.
Slowly, he breathes, dropping his attitude to ease into a character more subdued. He straightens up in his chair, and meets House's eyes.
"I don't want Chase seeing me as some invalid. A guy that can't keep himself up on one heavy dose of pills, who has to go begging for another." Chase has already seen it. He gave him fucking tranqs, but that was once and once was enough. "From you, I don't care. See me however you want. You're a stranger, and I'm happy keeping it that way."
an empty face and empty bones;
"If I make an appointment, a proper one," he pauses, "Will you take it?"
To confront and dodge the point is a contradiction. To confront someone, you have to open up a part of yourself, to supply fuel for your conviction. Otherwise it's just hollow, meaningless bullshit. But Amory's not so good at that.
Slowly, he breathes, dropping his attitude to ease into a character more subdued. He straightens up in his chair, and meets House's eyes.
"I don't want Chase seeing me as some invalid. A guy that can't keep himself up on one heavy dose of pills, who has to go begging for another." Chase has already seen it. He gave him fucking tranqs, but that was once and once was enough. "From you, I don't care. See me however you want. You're a stranger, and I'm happy keeping it that way."