In a review of DK's posthumously published poetry, I said that as he looked at you he did so with deeper insight than other folk. Thinking on something Pete Kalu said last evening, I realised that was a necessity for him arising out of his then situation.
Specifically what I was referring to was the style of communication from him which said: we've only just met but we're friends lets get going. There isn't (to my eyes) any reason why one can't make a snap correct decision on any new acquaintance and be right much more often than one is wrong.
The convention is that one takes a long, sometimes l-o-o-n-g while
to be friends with people. What Dike was saying which of course I didn't realise was: per what I wrote above. It made sometimes for magical times with the guy
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