My dad is a Marxist intellectual Anna<\/p>\n
Really<\/p>\n
You do not seem that impressed<\/p>\n
I am not<\/p>\n
Why<\/p>\n
Because there is no such thing as a Marxist intellectual<\/p>\n
I disagree Anna<\/p>\n
Marxism has never been proved to work<\/p>\n
My dad is an intellectual<\/p>\n
I am not disputing that<\/p>\n
But as an intellectual he must see through Marx’s ideas<\/p>\n
They might work on the planet Zog but not here<\/p>\n
In Ventnor<\/p>\n
Nothing works in Ventnor<\/p>\n
Do you know that Marx visited this town late in his life and walked in the area when he could<\/p>\n
No<\/p>\n
It is not much celebrated by the town the odd plaque here the odd plaque there<\/p>\n
Unlike Tennyson at Freshwater<\/p>\n
Spot on<\/p>\n
I wonder what he must of thought as he would have realised how ill he was<\/p>\n
Do you think that he thought he had failed<\/p>\n
That is hard to say<\/p>\n
In a perfect world it might have had a chance but this is not a perfect world<\/p>\n
I prefer Tussy Marx<\/p>\n
So do I<\/p>\n
She destroyed herself because of a man<\/p>\n
So many women do just think of Sylvia and the poetry she might have written<\/p>\n
What a waste<\/p>\n
What would you do if I met someone else<\/p>\n
Meet someone else<\/p>\n
Would it destroy you<\/p>\n
No I would be incredibly sad but it would not destroy me<\/p>\n
You<\/p>\n
The same<\/p>\n
Do you like the island<\/p>\n
Yes<\/p>\n
I used to come her as a child and on one visit Eleanor gave me a postcard<\/p>\n
That was nice<\/p>\n
It was of the concrete island at the bottom of the hill<\/p>\n
I rather like it as it is so original<\/p>\n
It has not changed<\/p>\n
Well on this postcard there was a young girl of about five or six in the most beautiful dress<\/p>\n
I adored that girl as if she was me<\/p>\n
She resembled an angel<\/p>\n
Did you ever meet her<\/p>\n
Heavens no at a guess the photograph was taken in the early 1960s<\/p>\n
But she was my beacon and this is why I love the island so much<\/p>\n
Do you know where we are going<\/p>\n
Not really I do not know Ventnor well<\/p>\n
The railway station is now closed<\/p>\n
That helps<\/p>\n
It closed in the mid sixties due to problems with the tunnel but Dad told me so much about it I thought it would be nice to visit it<\/p>\n
Uphill<\/p>\n
I know<\/p>\n
Are we lost<\/p>\n
I fear so<\/p>\n
Nobody should get lost in Ventnor<\/p>\n
Even Marx<\/p>\n
It is so quiet<\/p>\n
Sundays are always quiet in November<\/p>\n
Anna<\/p>\n
Yes<\/p>\n
There are a couple of people by the bus shelter they might be local<\/p>\n
Where<\/p>\n
Over there near the estate agents<\/p>\n
They look like visitors<\/p>\n
What makes you think that<\/p>\n
It is just the way they are dressed<\/p>\n
He is all scruffy chic and she is just beautiful I do not think that I have seen a woman as beautiful as her for a long time<\/p>\n
Would you go across as you are more familiar with the island<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do you know the way<\/p>\n
Yes it is straight up the road then up another hill<\/p>\n
You look like you have seen a ghost<\/p>\n
I think I have<\/p>\n
In what way<\/p>\n
It was the woman I felt that I had seen her before<\/p>\n
You might have seen them around town<\/p>\n
No it is deeper than that I feel that I have met her<\/p>\n
In your dreams as she is so beautiful who knows I might be jealous<\/p>\n
No I know her from somewhere<\/p>\n
Did you find out anymore<\/p>\n
Her husband called her Jane<\/p>\n
Nothing else<\/p>\n
No<\/p>\n
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