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"Talking."

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"I was trying to
think of when rightly

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to enter the conversation
with all the others talking,

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thoughtfully, comfortably.

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There was no occasion to say
that 30 years in the Army

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was a long time, or that very
probably, the world is flatter

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than one thinks.

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The star is as far
as one's eye can see.

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My shirt had broken buttons
I had hidden with my tie.

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Otherwise, I was clean
and reasonably dressed.

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Yet, impatient to join in, I
could hear my voice landing

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suddenly on the edge
of another's comments,

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me saying I cannot remember
what, just their saying,

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'What?'

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'What?'"

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[LAUGHTER]