The Pooles first appeared earlier in April. They will continue to appear, at irregular intervals, on no particular schedule, whenever one of them turns up in my head with something to say. The Pooles have never, in my experience, kept a diary.
My favorite part was when you show us the father, seeing the child happily working away, being his own differently-wired self, doing what came naturally to him, “as far as Gerald could tell, without the constant small effort of pretending not to.” Thus I understand and feel deeply for both the child and the father…Excellent!
Gerald and the desk drawer that doesn't open easily. The cousin thing that was filed. The recovery taken in small pieces on the grounds that anything larger would require admission.
This made me ache, in unexpected echoey ways. Tender, understood, respectful, wry and unwillingly moving, galvanised by exquisite lyrical exactnesses.
My favorite part was when you show us the father, seeing the child happily working away, being his own differently-wired self, doing what came naturally to him, “as far as Gerald could tell, without the constant small effort of pretending not to.” Thus I understand and feel deeply for both the child and the father…Excellent!
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Thank you, from someone who is both Gerald and Henry but doesn’t actually have an interest in corvids.
Love this!
Gerald and the desk drawer that doesn't open easily. The cousin thing that was filed. The recovery taken in small pieces on the grounds that anything larger would require admission.
This is very good, Carlo.
Just brilliant!
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