Sublime

On the first day he felt bad for me when he saw I didnae have socks thick enough for the boots so he gave me a pair of his. My mother had given me money for a sandwich and a bottle of ginger at the train station back to the city, I saw he didn’t have any so I made sure he got half of mine. That’s all it really was, wee things. Over the next three

prevaricating.

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That June, to raise Paul’s spirits, Gala invited René Crevel and his bisexual girlfriend, the Austrian set designer Mopsa Sternheim, to summer with them in Seelisberg, at the bucolic Hotel Bellevue, where she and Mopsa became fast friends. They were joined by Louis Aragon and his new love: British heiress and influencer Nancy Cunard.

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta, who sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be