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Tag: love

  • Diary Pieces: A Life in 365 days – March.

    1 Mar, 1995. Hill Town Wrapped in a shroud of melancholy. Nothing deep, but a wafting tissue that makes everything a little sad. With Stella to a concert of Tallis and Byrd. Begins with ‘Third Mode Melody’, the theme Vaughan Williams used in his ‘Fantasia’. Stella is bright, full of energy, unconstrained after her days…

  • Jacks, Bob Dylan, and ‘One Song Jukebox Number 1.’ 1971.

    p78. Dionysos’ Island. ‘On the overnight train down the length of Italy we take down the luggage and Simon and I use the netting racks as hammocks, leaving more sleeping space for the others. I look down at Jacks sleeping, sprawled and open-mouthed, then I’m rocked to sleep. I wake to a red dawn, the…

  • Introduction. &, Meeting Penny : Pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

    INTRODUCTION The details of Richard’s disappearance filtered through to me slowly. Or perhaps I filtered them slowly. I had lost touch, ceased to keep in touch with him several years before, having run out of patience with his lack of focus, his failure to get on. When getting on, one needs the company of those…

  • Albi in 1976: pages from ‘Diggers and Dreamers’.

    Chapter 1: Albi I watch the cream and red train disappear slowly around the long bend. The last I see of Jane is her hand sticking out of the window, her fingers spread out like the ribs of a broken fan. I stare along the empty line until the noise of the train dies away…