A cup that was too full of tea

Matt and Dorothy exchange picture post

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ER, THANKS FOR NOTHING

Dorothy Feaver

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I like the fact that, literally, “The noughties” is a decade with a void at its centre.

On Good Friday 2008 I tried to tell people at a dinner in Chelsea an instructive moral fable involving a Japanese man and a cup that was too full of tea.

I don’t know if they got it. Or if I did.

Maybe nothing is a gift?

Matt McLean

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One from the pre-digital middle of the Noughties – can’t remember where exactly, of course. I liked disposable cameras and I still like the duds: grainy, black and not much to see, they free up the memory.

Dorothy Feaver

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Shooter’s Hill, 2003, above the A2 and towards Kent, I guess. I harbour a belief that exhaust fumes intensify the light.

Memories become templates. Some things are mine to forget.

Matt McLean

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Round about Bologna, Aug. 2003… Strangers asleep on trains are mine to remember…

Dorothy Feaver

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The problem when looking back is that there are at least as many things not done, as done.

No regrets?

Matt McLean

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