the fatal inhabitants-a cut up text...

wflat thu. hail is going on'?''

"tho seco nd draw down In tFi e onbi net . *

·liie old marl Lad turn~d away,

envelope it and return it to ~ed" rie was angey and oontinued to tick loud Fr, '~lO<iO play> n<> curb" He liked CL'rth. *
they wre in more ir:-ooflerantlv than ever. 'late, And they were in g,ocd pro portian.

'~I 'in 0 mere t~an. Just as much if not more than light ccx

soenes, !*he p~used "rIo;,' Jor PIc%URxs tic continue
"perhaps time is tellina, ust a facee arid gooey e'o~rk I arid then lie remembered time couldn't to I * i-ilL' could 'n tell, Ir it was a man or if he was years old, he could fool o~ (4 0 C be ally gonaer, . . lIe thought ene and examined - it o~ nec y whir e every- thIng was speeding i~p. lie 'tas only doing this because Lie was jabbering incons~-~ I) Lently ard incoherently. Sc re~rea4 the last pasJ sage with theminescule niou~t of cperm in..
Hatouglitlessly written, This is a drug '* he thought,
"thic j~st isn't ijOIll; to no~ody want to hear'?" he aiked he read aloud,

"LLL'ZlfZt FtUSHvr 'lit SV~B SZ>1t4Lt fll>rsui+; FOR ;,'l~s Att> IFS


By now his head wa~s Ir' the front window arid i~ noticod that when ,e used bo sit in the front cnw~lo-nimbun 0 nude were forming fllld writing some etupid english.
"OlUd'' he; thou&rIit am' Lt~en sneezed into, uninteritionall y + tile
sex he sou,mt, - 'about going outside?" ho asked.
"li*+ZO" the &;3oa fri ond arrived.. one day. *
tile lu;ioh-1rjuse "fle: continued, "it was only the televisi. no '1 og secretiv that tire ceiling, had (One 0 bed
"instead of ti-c boring box in the corner²" trie ~an returned,
tire sia dows alonis with the oar... Stef~n are volt tie re?" so tric ceiring irad gone to bed
<lien there had teen no rep y tampered with, some fasoints Liv bUe ra dio was on somc hens * Suddenlv lie and MS woke at eleven with a mug he crept up thestairs to the writer on his lap.
'Spl~skiing aroond? he cool a be:L jeve , ".1 believe I an trying to write. A bed perhaps'?
and the unmistiaoes even want to to roao [~ borings *1 had> Sri red to himself arid pre-fornied tr?: ~. r boring; mund~ne '705 Ldast:Arbating.M. S left the bc , '+ZU« ** hcotical~v he thought op the stairs arid through the lisT, "bath and wash joy mundane outer she
The television blared out above...
Re oressod tirs side or his cicarotte badly. ;vhenever ho to La~ ~y and unintentional y had any thing to do with money, a oushy job a ,'.ig>er~nti 0 yawn "what a crappy dreomI'~xhibit ion!" and, inevitably ire tried to roTheir;L'r kiat he had. Ile ci tyring to write and ho was s~.-eabln~ and/or h'.ir r nor 1, wuenever he wa- sure that tiller might to One ric)(ey too...
"VChat a load or old ~ '~ he thought,'¹ that thier mi~ght H be some money too!'?" it sei,-Q»'ed to be outta sight man!
i'n cue was nobody outside and when as when he had ta~ked Into him n a wave of ninilisin. For wr~eks afterwards he remema-erod the progrumlo about is 0 image * It Wa.; also a ~tnil of rcniemtcred doctor s words He h-'td only encountered it with or d icr! asts of aryl nitrate. lie sat down, tat he cool i Tnt stan'.~ . .Zhe television into the room he wished , ho also wisliwashed to drive to the eoa%st to ouy lots of the writing he was attempting.. A spewed thought from the rectum continued to tape the porta~telly.

hey what tht k-all is gaing on?"

"the second draw down in the cabinet. The old man had turned away,

"ervelope it and return it to be4~ he was anpry. arA continued to 2 c,wisr, "rORLO playing eat~B? !" He liked earth.

tkiey were in more Lrt-ccherantly than eber. llats,and they were in good proportion.. -
"I'm on more than just as much if not more than lir,ht sex
scenes,"ne paused "aew JOB PIQTU.~:si" he con;inuen,
perhaps time is telli~;, j-jst a facee wid gooey spiark! ar'4 bben he reweinbered time couldn't tell. ·rime oouid'n tell, if it was a marl or if Pie was years old, re could feel old or be any gender,.. lie tho~t olte and crammed - it closely while every- thing was apeedir~ up~ lie was only doing bras because he was janbering inconsistently arid incoherently. Ire re-read the last passeage wiLk ~emir£ecule amom~t or sperm In.,
"Thoughtlessiy written, '2hts is a drug..." he tho~ht,
"this just isn't going to nobody, want to hear?" he asked. he read aloud,

"bLT~T}iZB YLUSIIED r~1}j3 ~ s"AI~~r) TISSUE FOR ~I1~ A~D £~ILBb'.

by now his head Wa, in the front window wLd hr rinticed that when no used to sit in the front cumulo-ni~bus Claude wore faming and writing some sturid en,',lidj.
'.Cb&(' ho thought and then sneezed into.uhintentionally, the
sex he sought, 'about going outside?~ he asked.

"INTO" ~he$ood friend arrived..'Jone day..."

"...in the lwa'.'h-house,"he eontinued,"it w*~s only the televist hoping secretly ~;-£at ;he ceilirqr, had gone to bed."
"Instead at Lhe boring box Ir tbe corner?" the marl returned,
"thu sha dows along with this car.. -Stefan are you there?~ so the ceijAng nad gone to bed
ihen there had been no reply tampered wibh,some rasoists by tne ra dio was on sorne hens. 9uddehly he tand L'.S. woke at cloven qith U mug he crept up Ihestairs to the writer on his lap.
~Sp1~shin', around?" he could believe, 'I belicre I am trying to write. A bed pert~ps?"
"...and the unmistiaces even want to be read by borings~ Re ~fli:' smilud to bimnelf ad pre-rorrad thi".r boring mundane lives! UasturbatLng,~.s le~t the bo, "VUCr I" hectically he tbomth.t Ian che stairs and through che hal,', "bath, and wash my mundane outer she1~
flhe teLevision blared out above...
no pressed tk:s side of tus cigarette badjy. '~benever he totally Lfld unintentionally had any tUng to do with money, a cushy job, ' gigenntic yawn;"whab a crappy dream!isxhibittonr" and, Lflevitab]y tie tried to reinember what he had. lie was tyring to write ird he was sweating and/or ha] V nih, whenever he was sure that ~hLer mi~t be some money tco.
a load of old pooppee," he thought, "that thier miNjit 13 ,e some money too!?" it seem'~d to be outta sight man
L'here was 'tobody outside and when as when ho had talked into him Ln a wave of nihilism.Ptr weeks afterwards he rtnenbe~nd the yrogramws about his own image. It was also a kind of remembered Loctor s worda. He nt&d oraly encountered it with old bi asts of =31 jitrate. Xe sat down, blat he could'nt etarta.. The television into ala room he wished, he also wishwasbed to drive to the coasL to - my lots of the writing he was attempting...A spewed thought from lbS rectum continued to tape the porte-tel Jy.
i.e nat down tben be stood J). He hadn't realised, his sexuality was indcr the tacky corfee-;auie. L'is vir8irtity,he ti·i taken his rirririty when be could afford it..."ihe details ci the sex he had h rad been stolert rro,a the nearby pub, the s-ncr ~acation think. ins~
back-la ur£s. lie fourd ore, lookizig in ibis science.
£sact., urE,,r" be paused , "Grab-I"
"hat Lts 0£. bat-cy, that had probably fell or been dropp.ni. At -aca's he had taken nie ~ea oif the paper~ with a fee'ing of tiaportaice as .~o sat?tI
They rode houc taJki~ ueperated as if tbey ·eers mad or sornething. Pa reaLly bated B, and continaed bo ro~l a crapTy fag. Be looked up 'The book was never goir~ to t~ck." He lit it , took a drag and bad nandered out into ~r.e cloud. hi.' i.ougbed.
"PUCX 2hl~!~' be ho~~ht.
"Wbieh was Codiinj from the chures.;?
"whatu the i'ucking hurry It ?, Ir I tn ink this really matter to ge~ IL clar in iy mind . Le was wearing sborts .tnata w}L,tt please him!
~Minor...IJnewplyable,thatt. what, YOl WAY"' he laughs,
and the chances or kin. ilecing nat kir~ coles motel." so he
nalked slowly and on his own. ~e wan surrounded and full up by ELd up unciaployabfles.
"Won't get teeth , thier kids!" anti kids wece out,jn trim stage
~£ tic game any dokea were out and about. benafly with yesterday. be wis wa1'in~ arotind, ducks flew stround quackine away.
some blokes had attempted to lerby, throwing themselves into
Lie o*n I lie tad made some exciting water aver searby. People he &umbered an~way,with a good view or a mix of peop~o,.
no wan hu-qi'~y a~id it was hot, lie would walk b₅ a meat kappy iog of do~s with a yoUnt', kid with its'pointlese goir~ O'jt'head Ofli be even moved his headi "as nsual I'm fuc~in'" he thought in order to get L;9e bet~er picture.i₁fter alj he war. born, ar£ why do ~,st p.01)15 thins on arid on after an embracing lunch, (typing at, he did so-on andoni !) The front room was too larre to go a different way, Tnroughout them they were open sites. The concrete place was mean ~nd tbere were 'wo huge tipoakers playing. Iffy at nkc war" every!- where-even in ~he busy main road.
The sky teLl througni there skintas he turned screnLLng and
snouting, lour )OUflf, blokes casually sat next to the ~reanher next door. an ho did 53 one of tize blokes said aloud;

"TH~ WI~buwr" ~ their conversation continued, withou-~ Ut first a reply, "PIG JU~I"

Their conversation continued from a shelf nbove the te~. event.
He whent '.uidker, towards home, and took a gulp of air tirang~b his nose. ~he wihi had leaned Itis wiry bad.

"Aboat T:l:£~~?" he sarcastically said

"bird,.." as IS head pounded the key in the hole. }Te prodded is ear "had he a L,tairway to the rlat?" he wondered.
Chemical stimuli had beer tic, balls. just to try it , thouph a feeling ha d 'itt him.
"Xettles on...!"
:0 picked up,&.rtd was as speeded Lip Sc he seemed to be... It wae cc qalok it was Just like wianking" lie ho-aght. ne felt incredibly puraniod, nor at, oftan as he'd like to. Dope was as. if he could sense everybodys face and could Lelerir~ L~ickey ijouset
"am-, teat" he also thougbt, "about rreryttting thats with mimi-c bat with afloIher, like the same tics...!"
*hen events ~hen typed on the paper a I tttle bit he found him. "bAL?ZOEnTAIb!" he shottts...
"and sYr" and that eked out or the window and was noticed...
bad wanted to wr~te. Earlier ·~ids were sitti~~ on the felt.
"Like it?" he said

···the T.V'S''

the aruke was even more bored than be
he ;bougtht, he reme~bered, 'gas closed intercourse.
everythinp~ was possibic on buses and t'ibes.9.e a r"w ~fle curtains Und lay on again. his dick was going inside.
~Todays L~'cky couple?~'
de returned to the typewriter again, gave a sigh and reached.
·'all at school' tie typed
~ilthough he had te box where he kept his j',ear,that great pleasure, no c~eckeu the ashtrays. ?e had thera r~m the girl he had -ant. tour tiny bits or baccy." ks thou~t further, '~he bad a crush on the tlondtt !~' be swig.
The plastic box he noticed reminded hiz of school; be had previoaa'iy come from. he looked.
'01£ Si'lIPFS I.' he felt emp by and aiterynirds, wknn u~1 the boys ha d gone &tid tipped it out onto a wnite
~See bi~ hode last! they had laughed.
he could remeobair in the land rover hir~ up next to fucking. hell.
"I ~ust be aiding abo'it Zishingi" something that he thoue.ht was Low that was no wider ~nan a match would ~:.et written
tni:t tnen hk i!=E.ddiwt ty stabbL'd it out after itohini': and listening ~o ;kie air₄-in~.
"j~m Ott oat next door," he ihouytt "I'm stupid!
fo iariyOYln but himself he had bo prepare hirselr.
"the park was parked with who you am..."bs sang Ir the style of a politically correct (new) ktfljl £ sorAone that he knnw.
Aroand the crappy r--,tda benches, parent£ were out with thier decisions, it was a difficult one, gangs. In a ~aIlery in soho nt· lad met a Icotbal j. cad or-.
The ecese swap phane numbers only to £or,cet. Dogs occasIonally brote ~hc arotr:g excuse up ,Lfld taken the gJy~ drtnA'. hen runring aroLind shak1r~ ho found a spot which made him down, imd iccasionally a neat head.
its lay bherd and almost imaginud ;bo~~t, too hnt, i'll n"ed a a rink Ir ~y gr£arjy gob, nhakinc. it Likint ! He mocked.

A cooIDie~ accent aligned two imagcs togetfler,in~cred~~cknoy joryland I

'~~hat is this thi:~'7" as violent noughts tarned into noises outside."iove it so much...~'he thong~.t. inrtoors he sat on the couch Opposed sex ~houghts uentinusdj or, and bo~ owed through ~flem SR Ir bkaey were on ;he way home. He had decided to do a sound track which wa~ dedicated to one of thesnearby housing estates. It was brillian blue children were hard not to mention smelly and could just pick out the voice bhat oLd peopie rocked of mostly.

Stood up, no walAed tow&rdw a corner into an alley. '¹be not ice king! I 6 rd notIced a titty bottle. "my) nitrate..."pa-~sir*. about.

be passed them, and as. slowly he opened ~ t and bog an immenie. ~ coLda really do w~;s none," and he qAckly walked over

to the far~tast his ears. AS he walked some out , he listened to a noine wnroh wa~ bhe cheap of a large fly as it buz~sd about. Us full dragasurround Easy
"I must write the same feelings frit without the..." be paused aloud to himself. He wished Lal king tbro~gh Luicester sqdare when a big door opened.~alktflg up thier, suddenly everything and person was about junk, and would he evErr be moving very slowly. his thoaghts like this scared him Sc he putout to keep up. E:e had a guitar also, "as ii he had boon smoking grass?!"
a nd ₉1iqi_11£ thh guitar is a ~ot more than obber psop~e do. Be look nnd did bntn St ,nt ir led what thev were thinkinat
He quic;iy goz :~p and went to ££ear tie bed. lie pulled out 'is
sa⁵ embarrassed as the old clock inside the onvelone were tim. AkiaL seemed be be :~ster,? and , tnem beasaitac they were down to clotres and in scruffy poor flat of cocks in them wflich turn him
"the leubiwi shots; and the straignt lie," he thou;~t to hLrnselt; COOK!. Lz liked the waj th'.tt ~ tLwabu /~j n£r b. 4orien doing the sucking ,iben lie was about thirteen be got out his can's one by riating hirnse;r ~ . tie knew people outside seemed to bu borc,d turd the proof anme whe:: he burned back to his typewriter. The tissue he had had'. Frepared and hurriedly and ~so can't qui~e just sto1 it "ORK I" He went to the totlet and down the pipes, he imagined it anyway...
eat
~nd aboun Ails fantas) world⁷ be sun had gone in and that big ~and. he felt tEe same as in the sky,
'Great!", "i like a soft liz T.V. after ucLool.¹'
"AID, Lry We brown grubby carbet." ha had to say, then he raiaeintrered quiet thunder and light ing whe~ it said;
"talk about this then, lest,"

l'nat night be sat and watebed me. :~.e had dceided to go to his. b~Oiethiflg c3se would tiapren and in a abort walk and the door was ?pen of tEe rc,crn that just played with head J. ights that skimmed th*t siL~t'd across af'Ler watchir-g a fiji:. Had l's had cried arid
been worried and droazt more curious dreams he walked in through the iitcflet~--hesd and sat wi-~h the type 'S.' · lie felt the wincine, of his blar~dsr agatn,, "this is oran, I can't toiZet I"; as the sourn of pLsa was~'~~nly ·~e blgheadsd megaloman~cr.
"Ah! a r£ther noise," tLe cr"aking of twats who j135t use you to ascajabie solir-as of pagbs tUrning aloud,
"it's sornethirg to de...~" U.rc.flushed and wont creeping dow' to the today'. writing day. ¹¹flack out the front doora" Tn. wea ther was goad again and tke wooshing 0£ tt:e traffic out of side or his nose. With hin finger tie wanted, xhJ.L:D~:n, a fag

lie iw;ade a long list Cl her thir~s that ne could rea2ly

·'=ui~I" he a wok" w;th a cinema critic in his work. in instsnt he awoke with a thought that finisted his damn stupid
book, tnat be bad just imagir-ed. It wan early Sr-a he read bank to brie r.8 If empty page &,"tiungry," arA he thought and hored confidena pills."Age from bin rent,?" Checki" she talked to him...
"self, all the time!"
"hirbin" he lau?hed to nimnelf.
Reality flow or his situation hit a tape recording he had hated. The sex thougytt himeelt had returned an similar as when he had video-taped eaxtacy that te had watehed.sn vmbarressin~ familiar corny music spilled out.
"fear thern,or talk to them..." he had a car and er£c'ugh ioney, "DruGs I" it was a farmiesa blob in his mind, somewhere within is mind.
-flior' ii' off he shouted, be kent remindin~ himself of his l&~a~e, vetich was nwHe-ogropby. He thought back to tonight...
in tne cours" of the previous day ha had bad flis dick in his nands
~ had a gpod picture I' ~is mind of the suited again. he had the hat on fits ~ rind he brou₁rht the cofl'eein."itual'£y everythirig leg"': '.0 wear off, ease off he n~ tflourht about It aprraaching the serpentine gallery.
"Head niekey Is bcth&,:i!~ settied it. te was bored... lie lit now he &e~t.~ why that there were peoplefl?less people,more tnugs arid ta.'ehno]ogg; ~suM'I~rZ~he pm m&~ and wonan that be bad seen yetaterday tyir£g in tlie park. His nead span. Re went through to the bed. tie was thinking about hard thoughts or odd cc'up2es cyslido,

love, ·rurry aosan'xx

&~hered around thc poal. Tableb knouket back towards the other side of tk:e night which was ]ong and hot and stunk. She was nignalting to him. he dreempt about it bo themselves, and when he awoke she was still sibLr~ normal and flaked, as this one had done in the ste-mi buatiori.
"Lively. jusp out of bed." he heard her,
Irrhen afore?" she continued...obediar.'ly LI...to the pub..." I.e sat up and waited, "...to rind, to bear?"
anen re pa~ up she asked Mm when. waiting, he would earn some money. Ike bad wandered horse still nor rigrit.
"Inc' ing pointless!' he had it's advantages! Kg swaggered back
to the flat smarting slightly. Little did he know...
Pissed, nip mind wandered back ter another atifty po',ltry hour; the short weekend. hey they had all tiated the job but, after
· v·hllc the sex.
is ter.
rrkiougntn quickly raced, ruly sober ones about the sex he had
han last, they tried again to wind him up~ lie had attained, Just by
the votqr)1,as if his soUl bid been sold.
"sotd?" women strutted and orgied more, flip Ant, his girl & himself Just like when he was all the did.
"All she lid was onote. ." bormasity wan so unbejeivably potent arid whorish. It was a gradual thing slowly then incroasing sunning away from tne crap for a lor~ quick and dissapointing if
be n.'ededj time...
"0 to play rdp guitar." and he cart down in his living room a nd turned the amplifier up. Loudly linrider stormed. His head re' t
t;.~ERnt ar-a lie growled uncaringly, groogy and had snact~ed all love.~I will escape here in the k land of noisey clear mucan". lie was th1nklr~ and his real ps-paranioa dissapeared; lower rent & central heat...
he bad been on acid an a settee of his parents, it nad portend arid Lad talked arid purred to bim,ihdefidtely indebted to these tripp~ ways,he was IC coulo only easily do ;)A-)s (do as dey say) In one of the fills he had recordsd his eyesi₈h~ Var free.
Record other ~ but he wets free to do a" he with He would nato Lhe optical nerve receptor uni~ to pose with the rest of tf.em.
"Was tbe idea rcc'ording?~' he thousht. ·' perItaps it was the 'ay to record "is dre~p ard they would hide in his smart grey urnap~I I Yep,the.belly-tellyi lie thought or the sexyfless of the ther clicnls. tie felt atber iore...he walked through into the end. hadea of the utopian dream demon that made him drc~ or we&ltn was
'p1] disguised peeririg from a can of beans. Ills friend who Just so appened to be the dres, or rashion, was s~ery where,disgaisedj
After telly he thougat or the sexy he's.. thoughts returned
bout the emotianally Involved with some money to buy records who ecoms/aremade more unfeelin5. At the moment London. about this;
·~T SOL£ IMUGS! or , him, ne really oould'nt really ffivN a toss. 5 long as tne do)s people dealt as if he and the rest or the group ust could'nt keep a Meeret...With this sick and idle planet they ust wouldn't notice arid tbOyd nLm, a smug and boring younger who
·as up shit creek without a paddle. It wouldn't end tbere...
tie went back into tte market for a '~~in and correction fluid⁹,
t certeinly thinned out the poovy pubs? lie,lihe the gits leaned
jit of the TOP floor, no to speak1 It remindel. of a winter years ago, somethin~', years ago?... Then again the scaffoldinr, was ~ctb~v oose. Me remembered a tattood man in brousers and a shirt who dgb rot around on the groufla rwo floors down the mall in Regerte strec
had soil. 'Ins ears and buaca rattled. His old stereo wall a
turrtin~ point of dif-erent things, tbte much annoyed him to the
point or 'no so-called subveruive ahd,watchin* a quiet prog- rame on vacant-r~vcrn,who would hang aroundy
~e put on his gina coat, Ra would t~e heavy metal dudes go to the L~nt door. He had his &ly segragated for,', or cipression and he wculd usc it ii hi kiwi to . Is couldtt figure that all or these dunes had clothes or not so he walked . "j~e Zust on different
shelves..." te tho'~jit.
"Oh bo:Ilacke and sod,ill... " he tho-~t, and thenhis brotner wats onro him about a couple on holiday he was serious about. ~ee tacy were red from hard conteimpiatin6 severe. Fie bopped on a buta and gave a stwA; of tbres tligkits of stairs on the busy cl-nay top deck. lie co'aid ~'ear the faintly sr£r.cyed as L-,ey Diye(J them- selves onto thE windows as radio I pjayed the whole time.
ticat", every tiody seemed to be waiting at tbs class entrance nal] coor, ror thier sio9plng wi~ichever way he went they wero
tumbling at nis jeet,
"GLIW IAK "tlieysnouted, }iis head span as they sat, tbe same
po"~try amount of people as before on the street side, as the bus macthe back or his rind siniate. lie thought about the sea anti the beautifully big mount. Ren6a was detinately a modern man, hever sure of the camel-people's aound. Us pushed car reality indeed, as he looked tor the 'atLil closely. RecentJ.y the bi~ question was
a ~~b;,?8LIrPI,~'J?Ir2o it? Be alive? doss it matter? Many were as warm as tbe water. and to lay pointless questions ti-at were sirnpl~. ..u~t!
lie had to go out to sort, not that te didn't give himself a
look,eo,ror-ward to the 'waber stand.
Another fift~ odd weak-a-weary ]~ves rolled tram the movir£g bus into... "sti-I it teats paying foe." he took ~;eat pleasure
in ri£Jing through them as often as he oould. He liked the wholly bly cheap archives or time noise...and the idea of another secret, This pseudo-polltina'ly correctness wa-aid never buy him
"TMa was epinner~" but there was nothing great and tktey had
~oid hit- to cool it.' ~he was at a nearby san kiouse which was tacky.
bat ;t.-ey had acented to hit it ofi' Ir. cccx ney accentuation, and aspecis or a] chatial abuse that Licked to h~mselV in his head that day. "ibis had Leer the mon--ent for his cotlanion ar-c? they eat closer tha n they had ever had.

"About the day?.' he aL-ked. "Probably just lis~ing. .. and scrutirizingl"

Asnestied was huited bin' 5 they would probably go. yes tie also. The bath was getttng, cosy, ror bim, i-~'t was one of thct,e. The fl-nor wiped, he thought i ~ was a si-arne. ·lhe res~ ot the few tiny spots of blood apearred.
"Bin' that was what they called a college!" it gave him a thrill, ~t's jim 'ike you. Accept Kevin!

The watauner was blue, Anrie turned on the bath~at. After an essyreaso Anne were O.K. ~hey were tur,thcr a lot or the time. She dressed and venturcd out. dC~he reserved the rir)1t to be able to be. The door was securr: berore,sloew1y.~alot of the cire-door- Housing benejits office called.
fits cal]; 'Turi; uowardn the snooh&r'

Be remfndc.d iijmself of this CVC+Y minute, they stro:l, be was in tne pit. It was a kind of tru-isb belief. i-c took a tic~e'~ and wius tiwe ensUed everything to be kind of on the wall. It read 98 and told of changin;;, coded eynbols, but,...
lie was d~p with sweat tro~ his near sticky "rid, for they were Jew an anotlier cue.

"Oh OILL'AT I" only wi-,ther! the ciflemEL?

A ~~ng wait in reality; the diroaLloria arid irnageti ~ triokery.. ror that matter, yes he would take from the racks of many fi]zs uceed. but j¶ had ·',ot better as he'd ~agic,
"llilsrious. a,j~5y ~V' ar'cj ti!me placed between a -a]] groap. ~ovies inspired him a touch more, like friendly things.
1,ike his flappy,way. ! ! "Cynical heart!"
i,£tL'ThMXd5 he had jufl~ LO ecorrarid found thier Beat with a group of friendly vashlonabic theaterers...and sure enough a gal
-ihey fled tLLLked about how lie bad cor~ out wi tri extrs-¶~ emory credits Itt~ atij sphere as they sat pretensiously and deliberately about.
-rhe aura w"u aboit even outside wr-ere the busen s~yed arid bounced with mostly older wen sitttr£g. tortunate people sat miser-ble, and rhemtselvc-s. }6'?ery now -li then ~cint that he had been fed hore.
·'~t-alk in and reacs into thier black bight-time goldish label.":
SWUtLhing on tbe television assured tern tie they sat and and would wait expuctantly for the sniff or rush. Another filta L'ntcrtained as then ~ey wuujd count out tnat it would soon be Sunday. arid the eternity! thLer sorry eyes would pat. 't'he bedroom tigain, but for now tie would have solos sort or a break.
Zz£'s on the radio and bbe poncy 1osh coft sound of irish pipes; i'usic restaurants aria tailors to the yuppies who were hiph out of ranch. Oh thLer laces Ctbier lack o.~!) and thier half 1~ul] rings. :2ime was tick, tic£ tickira alone a day of potential lesuire. they tossed and turned groaning relict. a they sat dova lie was taken that he hsd not re,.ternburt:d what hc.' had. The bui3dinr and people pal For him even if they woke bin up they ~rundled through Oxfords streaty sleep. The day began with thew- not satisfied wibt thier lives. He btui trotted down the road far coffee taking care to try
arid unoriginally think. When would he be working?
Silently people were watching him rrom above as he was pink mg along with ·~e rue.' of them ebopping on average about every 2 winute~. "sure when woLad lie titart?" he thougnt, and on.. -
"flow boring corrawall WaS then, -' he blurteci to bin,t~lf, as he
trudged satiejied with the ~unk, some cloth that made him feel Etupid and little. had he become 015 mi~y preocouratlon? the stany runs ho had watched in 'rsa~ity' wiAt does it ·£e~t?"
'mey had iAL~]uencL'd lgm In a different way.Otner atrociously obvioas things thro~hed his mind. lie was blitnijyig too numerous to even thinkol, arLd was delighted with the erectie-headackie, by trying to 'andersery. ~' tie thought or it all... and Idea] ten!"
They reached Islington and he oould'nt stop his eyelids. At a nearby recoro snop, where nil jin uxtacy and ~e sad suddenly relb the collection or an cad posLilty. Le 'ripped -is ILL-ob out arid stroked it. Mc hired to think of music in it its 'IC eased hir-ee]f into and at of fashion! It made him feel a slirjitly relieving orgasm. IC went...
"Interested?" so titey aujourted to Cm ut&ring jut of the wir:dow wi-Ich wss kitted out in pine and ] ondor jind beL~ broken with a terrifying very pronounced hernimlearer. This morning when he was on the kitchen floor in great globules,he ordered a git and cokegg.
"About moving LO arioth,,r nines?"
within the window,silently thinking.be sbi~ted uncomfortably.
·Conlght there *as a fib that esnourously let him have. And he was seilisc? Onclajons were B mostly.Most elder sons are, he thou'ht. me zietworsa in his br,.'tn had fauni a waste jr the Jerks. ~s went Lo tt'e iowlarid,trarinplarAed it and tho~glit; " other pe-ople weren't
at, pretentious as Ingys I" He round tnis most cUtting.
"except you'." He bad other peoples dreams. Jr they coWd LilCY wou]d stare, milirtg at him. "They have bo censor them," ~hey Iwa told him, 'like ~he bloody..."
but nt- did enjoy solitude, and men and woien erittred bin sILull, who once were spon~aneous, without much effect.
"History is a shopping mall's kiton en." be LJ'd the cupboard open
for Zood so often. lecause he telieved it leapt out onto his hand
in afunny way,-... ne also believed in -n-c trin around the world or cornunication, a secret ~hore job, and what co';]d he do with tbis? T-his was incidental at the j~Q~~% work.
ate had se~eral pobenb ideas ~rsvelling towards Dalston and
would habe to sor-~ something out. He Jiked films, rhe inoving product.
"~id you rind out abaut any at it?"
rhe sound inticed and could get him walkinc into the place of space cOfl~s)~aflce, arid suspense. He found that would be it,
-Then ne would be ap, wnL're triere was no exception, only In ttiat he tried La SLOP Lflinklrlg abou~ I?aul Thoking flarkiels. T~e wou'~d go into town later arid get a numter of things.

They had bought lots of orap, he thoaght as he was typing or th
the bajoany or rather tninkin~, h£ scratotied f-is heed. ¶'wa arid a halt hours later they kirew, watching the workmen take dawn Lkiier names They Lad t'tLked to Okn, a pale, then hc hurled it to a movie and enjoyed.
Inc darA nails irnpa-1ed itself or the damp, dark,down the road,
home. Other. jessed by loudly. Re walked ever to the~ without the arugs to entertain it up. j~ote~iThts the trafric ppproackied too quickly out of faint anger uspecially.
At home the flicker of the television and he wanted to hear
tal'ing and uke ocobsional choking, jo~e e edited them unti' ;he early hours ₁u-arall.nown the sLair was ube enerretic sound of sinj',- mg. sic would till tne cash-otird jus~ in case and sit and listen to Jane ot and decide ~~-;ner to change tile adverts that he cold excluaively to ron~~und thin,~erj Car a while...
"Yeah, eurej~' he thought...
A few young Then sloucaed in on the far side of the bar. He loathed hours and took a wa~z down ~e bar where he noticed a womy front door. ~be workmen were busy. Ic.- waited unsure around the wherese or triter radio, whicri invariatly was on.
"*hata your narne?~' LL-ey were warRing. As he opened he answered still catious of a jew b£owr~d wni~ envelopes. Save you dote tp-r work, he thuu~t Lflowifl~ it would be. Be told ~er everything as she was the thought th.t was flIwyS sparki rig, a' lteit a poultry

He tho~t on turhine upstairs to the stewly rt~thi-,he could start torii,~t , be would open it rnrl Jind a cheque.

Around Lie bar, half-cut, smi:-ed thc' gtre ohecue...

"The bath...~' that he would Net the thirty quid ror. '.'-e ~elt his muacie';. rel caRe to ire thought of Ms worthless tirne. At first "H~c:~-.' and "COOL I" was al] t:e maii~ed. . .Iie bad enjoyed bci~~ the only rent-rebater tor today ~ c-ri was not only bbe Cockneys and Irian peoples game, wnich he would ta~e to play. fle walL-ed home ra-, Lng i 6 all.In the sweaty hel 1-orrice kie didn't belong to himsejr n11,!! he thought like Lhis ,"would at least be off his bat'k." Oh the tno~~bt at being a roar lary git jim and he watt g--iwing tired of the well of wetilt.- that money was. Could he bad dreazapt of t}je ringing in his akull? Ever since tbe doctor time he needed to dream, arm had seemed Vega- e-y ra:ailiar to him.
He sat in the small spare roam havir~- a lengthy discussion, he tnraaned on. ~ihc Electric Inn had Jed his way to tbe surgery door.
and potentially back to him. "he coeL or an enjoyable trip to the body-Viz 8? *here flours turnt'd L~nto secondays. They had coun'.ed nit' urine tests and momintarily he rernembarod his socia: history, to a ocr-Bin extent it was v.e+Lts 'ago. and he -rae played on it.
Later In the dr-y he tad a tilanve. he looked. l--IL~: vibratir-g in the apeclal X quickly, boo quickly in fact as if it v·as DI his own.
Lt was a week later an-i ihey heard be just did 'rt buy any idea. It
·65 ;~ood in one way. buL very 'mar-nud, i3£e a futile riot Or a palace with electrt(r gates in capitajiot land. arA this was the trant door. It was s;aller bu~ "tie the torid over, he thought... ,n kne steady hum~rurn. He jolt, low! by buob arid jo~rbachov , to ride arourA s-Lroppy in thu muggy heat I
"Thin tol.ly garieluhe said
"-aho fut-king cares for a thir:g that was sitting on the side or ~Iothet, arid conformity.~ be eadded.
"Be aware..." she burned arid spoke
2hey nad looked jar a f(,r'R t"-.at had mo&sed the ~utsy ttiiy who bad ~.-ai-ped on and been accumliated ~n ~he packinr, kingdosi.
"We are a]J LaHer"!" Eelike,they hide ther-.se'ves on purobance Co r..-t a ~ord in edgeways. fle was anno~ed ju~ping- up and down, sc.'re
-voting sa~e at his extra "metal affi: jation with the ~ocnies who were another assnale,stupid bril after joints that blew them aLl ~.ay, "yourself?!.'
"Harry? l.-i=?" and today could the d~- bbat trike-warning Lhat tkisy had ro~,urhed. SesrO was aparadox in itsel~! no DaLter. .-.e made a healtny stealt~hy getaway from tbe flat. Tryine, was bard vork to be flyinN~ ro:and. His head bit out and wrote this instead-.
'¹Responsibllit.y, and all it's tra~nty] C Wa boring." aIDe L-it,es redtape remains of course, just ask peoj)le who are get- tirig or: and in tne place. lie asked hirseif and got th~ ~jn~ber for wikich h4' could use Var ree
Blue Peter was on and the wor]d ent.'-rsd his heed kinda. Fe wuJ id go ror a Wa-k to the tOOlS wkjo ran the show. Alec ~ing. IC tho~-~t cynically, The cunt would take a last look at it all before the stom'iohe joined in the chorus of years.
Timc.be was sure of ~~he stupid moran of a present, there and the ~en he screamed, buckinj~ on call. To do some washing np"- rt felt sad Staltad! rltaghoIe! "and rint,i~". The day had been mixed, WIth 'ne long ~afl into town and a show of friendship and popularity. Rough, the tleiak city-scope.. A blcke had promisec to get them AVUT nindaws I bier faces were creaser: arzd moved. lie t,:l t humb~ e.
%arm tension was in tne air, he noticed. Another had I ent him LOOadd£sj ~strange?" '1e ~ooked,"m~ybc Irr,~put ,t record on." I'm Dane L-Lese days but it d Ldn't reai'.y get ovor the decor~ted setec! lie was geughed at them at them having a ~o;
·'ibas, ;yhere did t}rnt r£ney go?"
sr£d thought to hi~self acout clo'~bes , utk:Rr WI'" saved or jueb

"Your guiitv in that case!" she ebouts "£uy a trarisit vat arid jlvt-in 'ti"
rhe sky made tne ir-habitants aount, but this was stahey stale ae tr,e sudden sparaite c;aainc.'o or ni(.rcwavcs.

~ ~or tni-.L'h.'

3tiside, tne people didrt't take ar£y 2-iking to the cjidd' e-cl ass-type being...Most sma~tng shows of nature didn¹t ratter, money did! "fuck tr£t, fuck bhis! Lttis rexi-time dre~-s tate, each are S 5bic~ wtic£y wet stor-i in a tea-cup! It rcmt-.-ded hiff. tfltt ti.' liad teen ~i$iLe1ly remasbered in lIfeless ~arb-aJity.~.(Hw) He wished it; he vinian of the titare; alwo--ys a sudden shoe show of power. ~o an )flO would ~o knowingly into the exhaustitied world ttey would simply Cry! ~Ust some old ubought he ~ad imagined ~oft~en) the blood 3loated snd so dietorted.
'tat waist-d by; On the bus legs (isn't I' ~nracr!)

"~I'LkLIttg~ meaL"

·ie o-~ten visuelised press people dying Ir' a white flash, pouring ~brougn tas u-aer~-~rntcful Iress despair, no time for real life, it was ~at simnie! for liE bo express anyway. such crar~y coldness when none~' didnT L distract ni&-. rca?
"evidr.nci.'!" as he did when he was pulsating through, falling Lnside hJL~eif, peopjee conve~-sation,

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