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He leaned over the table towards me and with a conspiratorial grin said "I've decided to kill myself." I spluttered and put my coffee down with a clatter. It splashed over the lip of the cup and soaked into the napkins. "You're not serious. Never. You can't say things like that! Look - "A thousand different ideas of consolation and advice and shock and anger were cascading out of my brain, and they all wanted to be expressed first, with the effect that my mouth seized up under the strain. He ...

There was a very angry man at Speakers Corner; his anger crowded out the anger of the other speakers and drove them to mope, defeated and sad, by the banks of the Serpentine. His anger manifested itself chiefly in the foamy spittle around his lips and his rolling, bloodshot eyes. Every so often he would muster up enough coordination to reach into the plastic milk crate by his feet and extract a tatty newsprint pamphlet, which he would then hand to a startled passer-by. Those few who were curi...

There was a foxtrot going on the living room; four couples, altogether, and not one of them could go a dozen steps without stumbling over their partner's feet. There was an excess of drink and a shortage of practice; also, this ballroom was only some seven feet square. Collisions were inevitable. One of the couples consisted of two men, who found their reserves of enthusiasm running ever lower. They couldn't decide who was to lead. They were tense and unsettled by the feel of their arms aroun...