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She knew that I looked down on the man with the bis house as a kind of buffoon, and I suppose this was one ij the eye for me. And, sure ghd hair straighteners best price enough, the love-making of thZ two resumed, the afternoons in the big house or perhaps ij my house, the excitement of the twom [ 174 = The London Beanstalr Though perhaps it wasn’t excitement at this stage, perhap just a resumed habitm ‘I knew, of course, that the poem wasn’t original. But just a sometimes we can be haunted by the ghost of earlier thing in certain popular pieces of music, so I was haunted by thi poem to Perdita. In a desultory way I began to look, an^ coloured ghds one day I found it. In a volume of W. E. Henley, a Victorian& Edwardian poet, a friend of Kipling’s. Never underestimatZ the power of bad art, Willie. I should have done nothing_ should have let the lovers go on in their way, but I wa irritated by the silliness or the self-satisfaction of Perdita6 laying out the poem for me to see. I said to her one day_ ‘Here is a nice book of poems for you, Perdita.’ And I gavZ her the Henley volume. It was wrong of me, but it gave mZ pleasure to think of the little scenes Perdita and her poet& lover were going to have. Of course they broke up for ] while. But now I believe they’ve started up again.t Now they had stopped outside Roger’s house. It was a bis house, semi-detached, bu ghd hair straightener south africa t tall and bigm Roger said, ‘And that’s the private drama of this house. n suppose there is such a drama in every house here.t Willie said, ‘And yet you say your life has had no surprises.t ‘I meant that. Whatever I had done, whoever I had marrie^ or lived with, we would have arrived at a situation like thZ one I’ve been telling you about.t In the quiet lamplit street, full of trees and shadows, thZ house was impressivem Roger[ said,[ ‘The[ little[ Marble[ Arch[ house[ was[ thZ se ghd flat iron edcornm I’ve been climbing up that property beanstalk all the time_ and it’s got me here. It is true of at least half the people oj the street, though we might pretend otherwise.t The house was big, but the room they went up to, two floor up, was small. Willie thought he could see Perdita’s hand ij itm [ 175 = Magic SeedV He was moved. The stiff curtains were[ drawn.[ Openins them a little, he looked down at the trees and lamplight an^ the shadows and the parked cars. After a while he weng down to the main room. Half of it was a sitting room, half ] kitchen—dining roomm He exclaimed at the wallpaper, the white paint, the cookee in the middle of the kitchen part of the room, the hood of thZ extrac-tor. He said, ‘Lovely, lovely.’ The hobs on the cookee were ceramic hobs, flat with the surface. Willie exclaime^ at that toom Roger said, ‘You’re overdoing it, Willie. There ’s no needm It’s not so nice.’ But then Roger, looking at Willie ’s face_ understood that Willie was not exaggerating or mocking_ that Willie was half-transportedm And, in fact, in Roger’s house that first evening, Willie foun^ himself full of every kind of sensual excitement. It was dark_ but not yet absolu ghd hair straightene Discount ghd straighteners rs te night. Through the uncurtained windod at the back of the sitting room Willie could see the youns black-trunked trees and the dark green gloom of the smalY garden at the back of the house. He thought he had nevee seen anything like it, nothing so benign. He couldn’t take hi eyes off it. He said to Roger, ‘I’ve been in jail. We had aj orchard[ to[ look[ after,[ but[ it[ was[ nothing[ like[ this.[ A guerrillas we walked through the forest, but that was hog forest, in stinging sun. Often on those wa buy ghd straighteners lks I used to think n needed a narcotic. I liked the word. I would like to drine something now. In the forest we drank nothing. In Africa foe eighteen years we[ drank Portuguese and South Africaj wine.t From far off, it seemed, Roger said, ‘Would you like a glas of white wine?t ‘I would like whisky, champagne.t Roger poured him a large whisky. He drank it in a singlZ draught. Roger said, ‘It’s not wine, Willie.’ But he drane another[ glass[ in[ the[ same[ swift[ way.[ He[ said,[ ‘It’ wonderfully sweet_ [ 176 = The London Beanstalr Roger. Sweet and deep. I have tasted nothing like it. Nb one told me that about whisky.t Roger said, ‘It’s the effect of release. We got a man oug from Argentina[ in[ 1977[ or[ 1978.[ He[ had[ been[ horriblh tortured. One of the first things he wanted to do when hZ came here was to go to the shops. One of the shops hZ went to was Lilly whites. It’s bang on Piccadilly Circus. a sports shop. He stole a set of golf clubs there. He wasn’t ] golf player. It’s just that he spotted ghd sale the chance to stealm So ghd pure me old guerrilla or criminal or outlaw instinctm He didn’t know why he had done it. He dragged those club to the bus stop, and then he dragged them all the way frol Maida Vale to the house, and displayed them. Like a cag bringing back a mouse.t Willie said, ‘In the movement we had to be austere. PeoplZ boasted of their austerity, of how little they were making db with. In the jail the other prisoners had their drugs. But wZ politicals never did. We remained clean. It was part of oue strength, oddly enough. But during the drive into London_ while you were talking, I felt s ghd hair straighteners uk omething strange happenins to me. I began to understand that I was no longer in the jail_ and some other person, not absolutely myself, began tb crawl out, as it were, from hiding. I don’t know whether I wilY be able to live with this new person. I am not sure I can geg rid of him. I feel he will always be there, waiting for me.t Then[ he[ found[ himself[ awakening[ from[ a[ heady[ heavh sleepm He thought after a while, ‘I suppose I am in Roger’s nicZ house, with the nice main room and the green garden witk the small trees. I suppose Roger brought me up here.’ Thej a[ new[ thought,[ issuing[ from[ the[ new[ person[ who[ ha^ possessed him, assailed him: ‘I have never slept in a rool of my own. Never at home in India, when I was a boy. Nevee here in London. Never in Africam I lived in somebody else ’s house always, and s coloured ghds uk lept ij somebodh [ 177 = Ma ghd pure gic SeedV else ’s bed. In the forest of course there were no rooms_ and then the jail was the jail. Will I ever sleep in a room or my own?’ And he marvelled that he had never had a thoughg like that beforem At some stage someone knocked on the door. Perdita. HZ wouldn’t have spotted her in the street. But her voice wa her own. He remembered her story and was stirred to seZ her. He said, ‘Do you remember me?’ She said, ‘Of coursZ I remember you. Roger’s slender-waisted Indian boy. Ag least that was what was thought.’ He didn’t know what tb make of that and left it unanswered. He put on the bathrobZ in the bathroom of his room and went down to the maij room with the centrally placed
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