You cant see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You cant, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you cant get the best out of it. Now! Lets have a real good talk reduces everyone to silence. I must get a good sleep tonight ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? Them as asks (at any rate as asks too importunately) dont get. Perhapscant.
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