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It was certainly the return I liked best, curled in the corner of the ridged back seat, with a blanket and perhaps the leather of Dad’s army-surplus dispatch rider jerkin across me, the driving smells of the engine blown back through a rattling fan heater. My head would be hard against the unaccommodating wheel arch, echoing with road tone in the cup of my ear. This was the engine song of my journey as the car was driven along on a foam line of mountains and a chaff of foot hills which passed in review above the window sill. My parents talked their unreclaimable conversations on the front seats, driving forward purposefully, considering their moves, and all the while I was gone to the mountain. Pretending to sleep the sleep of children it was so warming to overhear their talk which stretched above like a wing, occasionally adjusting the blanket against cold.
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Wheale, N. (1992). A Curve of Reading. In: Riley, D. (eds) Poets on Writing. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22048-9_19
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