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I doubt if one ever ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. The memory of my wife faded quickly enough and it was not constancy which stopped me from looking for another wife – to have found one woman who accepted me as a lover in spite of my plastic imitation of a hand and my unattractive income had been a near miracle, and I couldn’t expect a miracle like that to be repeated. When the necessity to have a woman became imperative I could always buy a copulation, even in Switzerland, after I had found my employment in the chocolate factory to augment my pension and the little which I had inherited from my parents (very little it was, but as their capital had been invested in War Loan, at least it paid no English tax).

The U.S.S.R.

I was walking with four companions through Moscow at night, but a KGB car frightened my friends ands they left me alone. I thought it best to go up to the KGB officers of my own accord and ask the way to the Europa Hotel. The officers said, «Get in the car. We’ll take you there.» At the hotel someone brought a high-chair for the second officer, and I could see now that he was a dwarf. I asked im why people were not allowed in the streets at night. He replied, «We want the streets to be safe.» I said, »Safe from whom, if nobody’s allowed in them?» He admitted that I had a point there he hadn’t thought of.