His friends at the factory thought of him as a charming young man overpowered by the sheer monotony of their lives. "Monotony wakes up the most beautiful hallucinations in you," they would say, in an attempt to explain away Julian's delusions about the blue eyed girl. Still, everyday during lunch, they would gather around him as they ate, to hear him narrate what he had seen the previous night. Some of them had wives, none of them beautiful, and so they found it amusing to listen to Julian's opulent courting of the most beautiful girl in the world, even though in a dream.
"Why don`t you ask her where she is in the real world?" some of them would ask him, at times to mock him and at times, trounced by the inexplicable realism that his stories had.