As we continue to wind down the Saga of Smiley's Person, this bit of 1965 video more or less provides a neat visual summary of (@0:30 -->) the story of my separation and (presumably by December) divorce.
Today WAW returns from her sexcapades in European Capital and has courteously informed sources close to Smiley's Person that it was "glorious" and WAW Herself is "in love." The sex was even more amazing than was the sex with Signore, which had been, you will recall, the "most amazing sex" of her life up to that point.
On that item, recall too that she recently pointed out that she'd told me "a half a million times" that I was failing to satisfy her in the boo-doir, which, if you amortize it over the length of the M, means she told me about 70 times a day on average. Which seems like a lot for me not to pay attention to, but, um, you know how it is.
[Speaking of amortizing, still looking for some freelance corporate communications work....]
So one really has to be happy for her that, at this stage in life, she has found Troo Luv, since she so obviously bore a heavy, heavy cross indeed for all those years of connubial... what's the opposite of "bliss" ... with the man from the Circus. If they made a movie of the Saga, Richard Burton would probably star. Oh wait -- they did.
So there is a nice circularity to this, a nice kind of bookend-like closure to the Saga, which started with Signore and ends with Signore il Secondo.
I suppose at this point all that's left is the Q&A; the presentation has come to an end. So I'll open it up to the floor.
