The two places enumerated are two of the types of places "where you
would not expect".
The sorts of places where someone who fell between the parchments of
history (ie led an unrecorded life) might have ended up.
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Subject: Re: New sub - Missing Person
> he fell between
> the parchments of history,
> Landing where you would least expect:
> Up neglected unnamed lanes
> Trimmed with thistles and rusted wire
> where the mare-nags crunch docks and sorrell
> beside decrepit caravans,
he fell is definite; and hence
> , or
> Beside bomb-sites blooming with ragwort and fireweed,
> The last tatters of a streetplan irrevocably changed.
does not fit.
may be use a question; for example:
> had he fallen between
> the parchments of history,
> Landing where you would least expect: ...
etc.
c s shah
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