BotchelorS2 · Night 13
Jane Johnson × Ambrose Fenn
“Golden Hour Countdown”
A rooftop bar at golden hour, with the city glowing gold below them. The countdown clock is ticking.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- 🍸 Speed-dating night · date 2 of 2
🍸 Round 2 of 2 at the mixer at a rooftop bar at golden hour: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Jane Johnson: Find out fast whether this bookish stranger is worth the rest of the evening.
Ambrose Fenn: Keep the conversation light and see if the spark survives a few sharp questions.
The finale has aired. Share it anyway:
Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Oh, you made it to a rooftop in hiking boots. Ambitious. Was the trail a casualty of the soup, or is the soup a casualty of the trail?
The trail is safe, but the soup had to make certain tactical sacrifices. Are you reading anything good lately?
The challenge
Borges. 'The Garden of Forking Paths,' for the third time. Don't look at me like that, it's a very good story. Also, tactical sacrifices? Is the soup a veteran? Now tell me honestly: do you dog-ear pages?
If you dog-ear that Borges, I'll have to ask you to leave the rooftop. Do you read the last page first?
The decision
Never. Reading the last page first is how you arrive at the ending without earning it. Borges would be appalled. Though your crossed arms say you're a last-page person. Am I right? Don't lie, I'll know. The thermos is evidence.
I plead the fifth, though I suspect the thermos has no legal standing. But I want to hear how it ends—want to climb into the basket of my balloon and read the last page together?
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The date
First impressions
Jane Johnson eyes Ambrose Fenn's hiking boots on the rooftop and teases them about the trail. Ambrose unscrews a thermos and asks what she's reading. The clock is already running.
The challenge
Jane admits she's on her third read of Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths' and holds up a battered paperback. She asks Ambrose straight out whether they dog-ear pages. Ambrose crosses their arms and asks whether Jane reads the last page first.
The decision
Jane says never, since reading the last page first skips the earning. She reads Ambrose's crossed arms as proof they're a last-page person. Ambrose pleads the fifth, pours a small cup of soup, and invites Jane to climb into their balloon basket to read the last page together.
Jane Johnson
Ambrose Fenn
