The great combinations in the world: coffee and chocolate; chocolate and orange; chocolate and cherries. Some things by their very nature like to combine with other things (There, a bit of old-world mysticism for you!).
Stilton and coffee, and Frau Wilke by my side...
I think I've read those five pages at least five times now. Makes me think back to Connaught Hall, just off Bloomsbury, and of the wide stairs in Wise Blood. The spaces between us that are not a distance, the importance of the word 'and' in human history; at any point in time we are known by the depth of our connections: between East & West, between the past & the future.
'Trane: freedom and structure, each breathing out matched by a breathing in, the old song of joy and sorrow...
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