A Kindness Cup (2012)
“After twenty years—back!
They’d done it after ten—a folly he’d ignored. Back to The Taws. After all these longitudes of time, what would that make them all if all of them could make it? Trembling sexagenarians, hearts pausing—but not for joy; eyes cataracted, prostates swollen or excised, livers cirrhosed, hearing dimmed.
This man pauses in his shaving to squint at the piece of paper again, razor hesitant, eye returning anxious but reluctant to the blurred letters. Who is Barney Sweetma...n? A name he has tried to forget. Barney… Sweetman? Jesus! Sweetman Sweetman Sweetman? Raintrees outside the stock-and-station agent’s before the dogmatic through road eased round by the school. Where he. Under crushing dust. Velvet crushes. And the flies busy. A youngish man then. And that other youngish as well, weighing out some sort of glittering utterance with his face ju-jubed by School of Arts stained glass, frecklings of cerulean and jonquil in lamp-light.MoreLess
They’d done it after ten—a folly he’d ignored. Back to The Taws. After all these longitudes of time, what would that make them all if all of them could make it? Trembling sexagenarians, hearts pausing—but not for joy; eyes cataracted, prostates swollen or excised, livers cirrhosed, hearing dimmed.
This man pauses in his shaving to squint at the piece of paper again, razor hesitant, eye returning anxious but reluctant to the blurred letters. Who is Barney Sweetma...n? A name he has tried to forget. Barney… Sweetman? Jesus! Sweetman Sweetman Sweetman? Raintrees outside the stock-and-station agent’s before the dogmatic through road eased round by the school. Where he. Under crushing dust. Velvet crushes. And the flies busy. A youngish man then. And that other youngish as well, weighing out some sort of glittering utterance with his face ju-jubed by School of Arts stained glass, frecklings of cerulean and jonquil in lamp-light.MoreLess
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