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Notebook 16.7

We never said much to each other – I always wondered why he continued to want to see me since most of our time together was spent in silence – but we said even less this time. He stared over my shoulder, giving single word answers to my questions while he played with his fork, [...]
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Priam and Idaeus – Extract from Ransom

The man fell silent, stared off into the distance, his features darkened by a look that twisted the mouth, hardened his jaw under his grizzled beard. He rubbed his nose with the heel of his hand. Priam too sat silent. There was much to take in. He too knew what it was to lose a [...]
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Father/son

I sneer when I see those people on the train who rather than keep their heads down in a book or newspaper watch the comings and goings of every single passenger in the carriage, like they think the fact that these people being in public makes their every action public domain. I sneer – inwardly [...]
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