Describe the relationship between Hollis and Lespere.

After their rocket was
cut "up the side" as though it was cut "with a giant can opener," the men
inside are cast out into the universe in different directions, doomed to float through space
until they die. As the astronauts drift farther and farther away from one another, some of them
speak to each other. Some men panic and say upsetting things or just scream, but Hollis
considers his feelings about the others. He "wanted more than anything at this moment to be
able to do something to Applegate," and Applegate expresses his own hatred of Hollis.
Applegate tells Hollis that he'd had Hollis blackballed from some organization to which they'd
both belonged years agoit's mean of him. Then, the narrator says,

That one man, Lespere, went on and on with his talk about his wife on Mars, his wife
on Venus, his wife on Jupiter, his money, his wondrous times, his drunkenness, his gambling, his
happiness. On and on, while they all fell. Lespere reminisced on the past, happy, while he fell
to his...