ALLY COMPUTATION

little more than a mere idiot calculation that anyone who is a friend can be kept a friend only by approximating the conditions wherein the friendship was realized. It is a computation on the basis that one can only b e safe in the vicinity of certain people and that one can only be in the vicinity o f certain people by being sick or crazy or poor and generally disabled. —DMSMH Glossary (app. 14.7.90)

little more than a mere idiot calculation that anyone who is a friend can be kept a friend only by approximating the conditions wherein the friendship was realized. It is a computation on the basis that one can only be safe in the vicinity of certain people and that one can only be in the vicinity of certain people by being sick or crazy or poor and generally disabled. (DMSMH, p. 243)