1:46:03
Strange that Denys isn't here.
1:46:08
I think he is off with Berkeley.
1:46:19
In the days and hours
that Denys was at home...
1:46:23
we spoke of nothing ordinary.
1:46:27
Not of my troubles
with the farm--
1:46:30
my notes due
and my failing crop--
1:46:34
or of his, with his work...
1:46:36
what he knew was happening
to Africa.
1:46:42
Or of anything at all
that was small and real.
1:46:48
We lived disconnected...
1:46:51
and apart from things.
1:46:55
I had been making up stories
while he was away.
1:46:59
In the evenings,
he made himself comfortable...
1:47:03
spreading cushions like a couch
in front of the fire.
1:47:07
And with me sitting cross-legged
like Shahrazade herself..
1:47:12
he would listen, clear eyed,
to a long tale...
1:47:17
from when it began
until it ended.