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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Dusk neared.It was like any other day he had lived, going about his life as if it were a chore.The day was to be different, he was heading to the town, it was to be his initiation into an oriental way.He had gathered along with a few other townfolk in a small ill lit hall. He had hoped this stint would be for the bettrement of his life, an eastward ho they said, was always for the better.
With a few strokes on the blackboard began the lines like an untrodden path waiting to be tread. Amongst the laughter and the quizzical looks at the new sounds and sights being thrown, there entered a set of woman, cheerful and bright , full of ideas and life. They were like the many he had seen, except for one.
Untill then it has been just another evening now it was an evening like no other. His mind raced at the speed of light, wondering whether this was just an ordinary sight. She looked around with the airs of a queen, it was unlikely that he would be seen. Dusk had suddenly become dawn, he felt his blood go warm. With a hypnotic gait she moved, his eyes following her every move. Her lips parted in a smile asthough clouds parting to reveal the radiant sun.
As pure as a crystal peak, as radiant as a thousand suns, as calm as outerspace, as effervent as a geyser , as pristine as a drop of dew on a blade of grass. He thought all this in fractions of seconds, he wondered at the greatness of the mind.
Suddenly as though lightning, lines cut through his thoughts. Lines of the orient cutting his path like the strings of many kites. Back to reality he came , curious again he bacame of the sights and the sounds.
uncut.....first edition
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