The View from the Quai Voltaire FAQ

Who is 'Friday' and what is he about? Friday is a homeless Moon child, born in the Sixties at the end of June, a crustacean without his shell, an absent and an anxious father, a meth addict, a street person. He is my friend, my counselor, and sometimes my hairshirt and scourge, as thin-skinned, needy friends are wont to be. He frequently scolds me--it seems to be a sore point with him--for allowing my intellect to make me arrogant and supercilious; because, I think, he wants nothing superior in his life to his own numinous Cancerian intuition. I confound him by agreeing with him (Cancer is my rising sign--though my sun sign be Virgo, all brain and no heart): I do, in all conscience, allow myself a lot of lattitude in the arrogance/disdain department; but not, I hope and believe, towards friends and equals. Which little speech, when I make it, sets him off like a rocket.