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    Nobody Knows
    Nobody Knows
    Nobody Knows
    Ebook233 pages2 hours

    Nobody Knows

    By Richard Lung

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    I miss you, so much. I love you, right to the top.
    Thank you.
    Yeah, I wish I was back with you. I don’t know why I’m here. I’ve nobody to go out with, and talk to. I’ve given up hope...
    I don’t blame you.
    I knew it wouldn’t come off, so it’s no shock.
    [Ellas captivity] It’s not being done, with my approval.
    I know it’s nothing to do with you. And I want you, and it’s a free country, surely. We can do what we want....
    It’s absolutely freezing, in this bed-room. I'll be glad when I can see you.
    [The quarantine and the council – no use to worry. As you say, at least, we’re happy in our love for each other – tho you are in unhappy circumstances.]
    No, we don’t want any worry.... Yeah, we have, my best wee laddie – my little love. I often think about (the farm) and me and you. – When you were four or five, a little lad, running about in the yard – a grand little lad. And we were real happy, playing together....
    I would make it better, if I could, but I can’t.
    I would bring you back home.
    Yes, I should be living in it, now. ‘Cos I own it. [Why am I not there?]
    The state is given too much power over family life. (They're making the excuse you’ve lost your memory...)
    I’ve got a good memory, for my age. Everybody has a memory lapse, and they can’t lock ‘em up, because they can’t hear [or remember things].
    I sympathise.
    (Never mind, sympathise.) It’s a crime, in my opinion. (Down to) brass tacks: it’s wrong.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Lung
    Release dateApr 13, 2021
    ISBN9781005156671
    Nobody Knows
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    Richard Lung

    My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....Authors have played a big part in my life.Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!2014, slightly modified 2022.

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