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cricket
white elephant sale
village
ghosts
memory
Charlie Barnett
quietness
stillness


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A Ghost Smiling Across A Crowded Room

A  Ghost Smiling Across A Crowded Room
A warm early autumn afternoon. A chance discovery of a white elephant sale in a little visited village yard. Not exclusively cricket memorabilia, but predominantly of stuff on that theme. There seemed to be so much on display that I surmised that scarcely anything had attracted buyers. Nowhere was a stall owner to be seen; no-one emerged as I rummaged. The quietness was dense.
One of those strange moments which seemed of little significance at the time. A cursory glance at this and that, I took a couple of photographs, and that was that. Yet curiously the memory is strong and persistent, like a ghost smiling across a crowded room.

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 Andrew Trundlewagon
Andrew Trundlewagon club
I think I know what you mean, random slivers of life that hang in the memory for no obvious reason but seem to matter anyway?
8 months ago.
The Limbo Connection club has replied to Andrew Trundlewagon club
Yes, exactly that. And why? What makes it momentous later when it was mundane when it happened?
6 months ago.

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