1982
…that we can resolve with a partial index of the actual numbers expected would seem certainly to contain a range of possibilities that as yet go unlisted and probably would sell for a low price on a seaside wharf referring of course particularly to one of the northern Cretan ports dictating as it were an important notion of connection of likely movements within the framework both of economic hospitality and technological flotation mechanisms or at least if we are to adopt stratagems of dead generals who at one stage appeared to have solved the problem of multiple embarkation and precious overloads of dead soldiers and important shipments of dried figs specially carted by mule across the islands mountain spine regardless of the efficacy or indeed the chance of embolism some patient labour led to a notion of delivery of prompt attention to the artificial variables that determine with unerring precision like the fans of servant on steaming days a soft breeze essential to the careful considerations of the rich not by the populace that regularly take their bodies to unfamiliar plains and whilst cheering and puffing watch their precious dark haired bodies fall apart at the seams previously invisible and detect in this some portent of failure or at the very best some gushing reaction of dead and dying patriotism assuming that any ship will carry a bag full of red linen and fish food back to the quay-side cats that strayed aboard their father’s ship…