History Boys drabble: A Minute Will Reverse [Posner, general]
Title: A Minute Will Reverse Author: celandineb Fandom: History Boys Character: Posner Rating: general Summary: Sometimes poetry can be understood. Note: For pushdragon who wanted Posner, "second." The title and the quoted line are from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot.
In a minute there is time / For decisions and revisions that a minute will reverse.
Hector always told them that if they didn't understand poetry now, they would later, but Posner grasped these lines immediately.
Not even a minute, Dakin's embrace. A few seconds, was all, and so he had seized his courage and asked for more, and to his surprise not been laughed at. Yet in that time he decided it was no use mooning after Dakin anymore; this was the best he could hope for, and now that he'd had it, he knew it would never be enough.