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Originally Posted by Alex Pepple
Max, ...I have now tried to sharpen that aspect for improved insight for the reader.
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In case it's helpful to hear how the changes change my reading: It's now clear that this is no stranger but someone who had known the speaker. They share "their" river. "Asperges" (an intentionally ungrammatical use of that noun? I'm not sure; the word is new to me) gives the search an importance to the man, as does the ending's suggestion that the speaker's disappearance has changed things for the man.