‘Diffuse the intimacy of the moment’

Afterward he asked me if I had any money.

“No,” I said, and he pretended to be mad.

But I knew Harry. He just wanted to diffuse the intimacy of the moment. Whenever you had a beautiful moment with Harry he just had to turn it upside down.

— Just Kids (Patti Smith), Loc. 1788–9

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