By sitting there with them day in and day out did he slowly savvy what they were about. Their talk boiled down to four topics which were the four that now follow that now follow here: 'twas pussy and drinking and jokes about dick and crashing a motorbike – auto or stick. That's it and that's plenty to have talked about to have recreated with hand gesture mouth to have now repeated these woebegone days in more than one language in more than one way. And though he spoke none of their small-island talk he let no restriction his listening balk but sat there and laughed with them at the punch-line for from a few snippets he could read their minds. Not really mind-reading but cleverness that to distill from nuance a semblance of fact to sit with Brown People and merge with them well and learn how his own Bali stories to tell.
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