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"What happened?" "You fell asleep." "How did I do that." "I have no idea?"
"It's a talent." "Dis I miss the boat?" "Yes, by some margin. Have a glass of beer it will wake you up. It's Chinese."
"What time is it?" " Ten." "What an extraordinary thing to do. It's nerves, it must have been nerves, what else could it be?"
"I've know children do it." "Well, yes children do it in response to danger." "Was I a danger?"
"Did we eat?" "No, we drank a lot of tea, but we didn't eat."
"That's strange." "The strangest thing, I dreamt the Queen came to Blackheath." "In person?" "She was in a mini skirt."
"Leather or crochet?" "It was royal blue. She kept crossing and uncrossing her legs. As if to say look at me!"
"Like she was bored." "Well that's the job isn't it? They train for it." "For good manners you mean?"
"It's the quiet here isn't it, it makes one dream. Martin could never sleep. Well he actually could sleep well. It was I who couldn't sleep. I would just lie in silence and look at him so vulnerable and think you have to be stupid to sleep as easy as that.
"But, he wasn't was he?" One evening toward the end he woke up and said, It's true, the older you get the easier it is to be happy. Then it must be natures way of preparing you for death."
Then he said me, I would rather be young and unhappy." "As if you could choose?"