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taciturn

When we lived in London, I had a good friend, a tree named Jeremiah. He was a birch and stood in Waterlow Park. He was a slow talent and came into bloom late in spring but then he lasted longer than most of his brothers and would give me shade and solace when many other

deliver yourself from your great toe

the I Ching says: Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, And him you can trust. at the start, the human condition includes extended periods of solitary confinement (we shall not call it prison for lack of sentimental sentence and judicial joviality but who really knows?): what a beautiful, perfectly horrible happening