CLOAK/2.4CatesbyA childhood made miserable, damp and sad by the violence of his teacher-parents' chalkdust allergies. A secretive shame-based shortbread-devouring personage practicing self-impositions of nearly unbearable harshness, nearly cracking but not under stresses shaped and worn as self-privations modelled on some adolescent hard-on inducing daydream of starship commander stoicism— beardless brass ballsiness and thrust-chested man-titty posturing in the furthest flings of space his mental make-up. A secret and deeply olfactory pride in his own private body. Weathering even welcoming showers of bearable tumults into the sustained quotidian fuss, too absent-minded to sport the large bone-handled umbrella that would be so suitable to his frame, even completing. Still assuming many incapacities in fact long-conquered. Pleasant self-surprises come with early middle age.    
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