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The Heart Of Beirut
They were the days of refreshment. They passed through the hourglass that hovers before a refreshing page. The digits at the bottom right of the page move from two through zero, and the only motion is of the unicycle. These were the days to recycle: ...
Notes on '[Work In Progress]'
Think the opening homage to A Tale of Two Cities works quite well. Not sure of ideas about tonality. Begins with sombre palette with certain verbal intricacies and then the garish graffiti that follows until the, as yet unreached, 1998 watershed, aft...
Note To Self
Add as Epigraph to 'Sin & Sine Qua Non'"A BBC correspondent outside the landmark Taj Mahal Palace said there were gunshots between police and the armed men, and that 11 officers were killed in the skirmishes.Eyewitness reports suggest the attackers s...
A Love Letter To The New World
"I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly d...
An Excrescence
A rather aimless prefatory note to Sine Qua Non stopped short of actually emphasizing what the author of the scrawlings considered obvious: she is not Sam Beaumont (even shorn of his penis). Boatswain considered self-destructive, self-obsessed, self-...
Intractable Track Marks
He waddles to the corner of the bedroom, and kneels to lift the head of the emaciated twenty-something whose holey body covers almost the whole floor. He'd found her lying in a street on July 1st, discarded by someone who'd moved onwards and upwards ...
An ungrateful if well-educated British subject imagines his life adrift.
Posted: November 10th, 2008 | Report This Comment