he liked entering a dictionary 

                             almost as much as entering a woman 

easier 

no beggingwhining

no wining and dining

                        NO

having made a frank appraisalfinding it worthwhile appealing beautiful he gently opened it fingered it he got his nose down deep down inside 

                          he never heard a complaint thoughto be fair his ears were cloakedheld by either pages or thighs 

sometimes he found entries which were unfortunate not his

for example

             Empyrean

the highest reaches of Heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure fire; by early Christians, the abode of God and angels

unfortunately Empyrean is directly under the entry empyema 

                                                                  pus in a body cavity, such as pleural cavity or gall bladder

Golly

in such close proximity violating social distancing he wondered if they might not affectinfect the other

                                                                                                     bad God and angels good pus

what he was following was something Vincent van Gogh wrote his brother Theo I let myself go without thinking of any rules.

       or Millers . . . the monster grows under my hand . . . what I am trying to point out is that these failures, or monstrosities, are the result of my faith in the virtue of letting things happen.

Golly 

       he Gollyed because he recognised he often enjoyed only a single portion of a paintingenjoyed its striations forms in thick coloured oil or sometimes one delicious sentence in a paragraph but a minute aspect then embellished reordered reconflagrated his interest and its appeal 

                                                       these reminded him of women he had been with a single redeeming quality so thoroughly attracted him that he didnt notice though not for long how ugly they weretheir person rather than their physicality  they had simply become the embodiment of that particular aspect that gathered his attention 

               or on the other hand a single detriment might offput him despite their overall attractiveness

seemed a bizarretwisted one for all and all for one

blinkered his appeals his distastes threw him for a loop 

                                                          he couldnt follow himself if he tried  he was elusive

 

2300,  Saturday,  25  1. 92

0001,  Sunday,  26  1. 92

1344,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  2  12. 20