... nay, an absolutely silent walk by the reservoir. I think my laryngitis is still very much there, so I've had a completely silent day - well, apart from a squawk when the Diamondbacks took a definitive lead against the Dodgers. With three weeks to go, I want to have something of a voice, and I know how these things can go with me ... So communication has been writing on paper pads, and on the Notes app on my iPad, and via mime - though I don't think that my skills, finely honed on charades many decades ago, were especially appreciated. I vividly remember one New Year's Eve, in Munich, when I did a wonderful - wonderful what? Performance, translation, rendition? - of Slaughterhouse Five. Or for all I know Schlachthaus fünf. It was already quite late in the evening ...
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