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His UniquenessPosted on: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 / 00:00 hrs
His Uniqueness
One day he arrives at a sound principle:
Enlist it in your cause. I shall be unique
In your experience, he tells the much too
Elegant and slim Miss Chiang, as your oldest lover
More passionate – in proportion to my age –
Than any other man you would ever meet.
She smiles and nods. – But had she understood?
He could not tell, and therefore he could not gauge
The effect of this strategy...It would have been
Absorbing, if she had clearly registered
The purpose of his arithmetic, to see
How her culture responded. One more thing never learned.
Relaxed despair.
By Alan Brownjohn from Ludbrooke and Others
