<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461074" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That! ? moment? !</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What would writers do without<br>the question mark? <br>(luckier still, Spanish writers, who can begin their questions with<br>an upside down, wrinkle-your-brow-here question mark, <br>to begin their questions...) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then there's the rather immature mark, some say: <br>of share-it-with-me exclamation - surprise surprise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But beyond all punditry, there are those moments<br>when life unexpectedly confounds us <br>with some event that's simply! ? <br>- or one that's rather more? ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once when I wrote for a magazine now defunct, <br>I was offered one day as a kindness by our Editor<br>to present myself to a famous ophthalmic<br>(that's an eye-test in itself, that word) <br>surgeon, who might have a part-time job<br>to suit an underpaid journalist: <br>an Indian in grand, top people's Harley Street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this Dr. Hiranyagarbha ran a sideline, <br>a magazine for the Diplomatic Corps; <br>in return for which he begged 'spare' eye corneas (don't ask) <br>from more wealthy (or loosely-regulated?) nations<br>which he then implanted nobly free of charge<br>in the less fortunate around the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The job was not quite up my Grub Street; <br>but he offered for my trouble, <br>a free eye test...<br>I checked the exit at that stage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The test done, a dramatic pause...<br>Then the great man announced<br>'Your eyes are ten years older than your face..'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's what I mean by a<br>! ? moment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vision then arose, so to speak: <br>ten years of blindness while my dying face caught up...<br>dark glasses? or a small but decipherable, poetic<br>plaque, pirate-slung over the forehead: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Here lie those eyes of wild surmise<br>which I unwisely failed to prize...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maybe on reflection it was more of a <br>? ! moment, do you think? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the other way round for eyes and face<br>would be pretty scary and! ? for the funeral director?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461074" data-title="That! ? moment? ! de Michael Shepherd" data-description="What would writers do without the question mark? (luckier still, Spanish writers, who can begin their questions with an upside down, wrinkle-your-brow-here question mark, to begin their questions...) : and then there's the rather immature mark..."></div> </div> </div>

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