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"On Drink" is suffused with a faint trace of yearning — just a dash of bitters — for the youthful Boys' Clubhouse, the kind made of boards banged together up in a tree, with a sign nailed to the door: Girls Keep Out.

But there was also the faintest hint of yearning – to be cut the same slack that Sunday's adversary, with his swagger, style and mot juste, always seems to get.

Deyckecaire isn't the kinetic showoff of Modiano's first novel or the moral dilettante of his second, but a quiet man, painfully awkward, observed by his son with a yearning flecked with contempt: He gave a faint smile, more a tremor of the lips, as though afraid of being hit, and I pitied him.

"The Horizontal Line," even though it contains faint, perhaps unintended, echoes of other poets, shows Hirsch's diction yearning toward the kinetic vitality of his early work.

A yearning solo for Martin Kilvady, who might be something of a ringleader, seems to bear the faintest echoes of story ballet.

Sexual yearning?

Yearning, exhausted lead vocals?

The yearning went global.

We're not yearning!

Very faint.

My yearning seems foolish.

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