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
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