Adlestrop


Tolerance will reach such a level

That intelligent people will be banned

From thinking as not to offend the imbeciles

Who said that Stan

I should know

Dostoevsky

it is a rather gloomy thought

Yes but very very honest

In certain ways it is happening today

One cannot use certain words

Or really question the people who consider

Consider what

That two and two make five

That is absurd

I know

It is like the idiots who think that there are more than two genders or that the world is flat

I am a man

You are a woman

That cat is a cat

That dog is a dog

It is all very simple

In a way that is what makes me different to the average man of the street

In what way

I can see and appreciate the simplicity of things

It is harder than you think

A lot of the shit that you hear these days comes from the so called academics

Who sit in their ivory towers

And sow the malignancy into impressionable minds

Just look at the people who protest they are all kids

What about the climate people they are middle aged

They are just sad with empty lives and have grown tired of masturbation

Can one grow tired of masturbation Stan

I suppose one can get tired of anything

Stan this is a silly conversation

We are on a train and are visiting the country cottage we wish to buy

Things are working out for us

It makes me very happy

That is enough for me Jane

I was told that Edward Thomas wrote a famous poem near here

Yes Adlestrop

It is about a railway station but is also about beauty appearing where and when you least expect it

His train made an unscheduled stop at Adlestrop and in a way it paved the way for an experience that was a life long memory

Shall we visit the station later in the summer if I am not too big

We cannot

Why

Because it was closed down some years ago

How sad

Yes but I believe that the station name board still survives in a bus shelter

Our station is not far away Jane

It is very warm out there

Shall we grab a cup of tea before we visit the cottage

That will be nice as we have plenty of time

Later when we are sleepy on our return journey will you read me Edward’s poem

It will be a pleasure Jane

On a train reading a wonderful poem opposite a beautiful woman who is heavy with child

What could be better

To live in this area as I have fallen in love with it already