It's terribly convenient to point to the autism as an excuse for eccentric behaviour, but there has to be a line where I am actually responsible. The thing is I'm no worse when drunk than sober - the only difference is whether I'm aware of inhibitions I've been paying absolutely no heed to regardless. I haven't written anything for weeks, and yet the rough workings of a novel are slowly wilting beneath the edge of my bed, in one of those old waterskin-bound diaries. I think there's at least a small degree of beauty in wanting to share an emotive response or piece of artwork or tale with at least a small group of people in the hope of touching those few lives with what hold you have over them.
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[link].lougboro. I mean there's a definite feeling of belonging from the off. Anyway, I get really sick of people living to compare their UCAS details, So I'll digress.
David Mitchell is a god as far as I'm concerned... I mean probably anyone who can cram Sei Shonagon and a prolifically literary goat in the same sentence as the missing link and the idea that yes, hiding at home from the yakuza, Eiji Miyake, employee of a lost property office at Ueno station, has been reported as missing by the waitress with the perfect neck whose name escapes me, but whose afterimage is burnt serrupticiously onto the back of my retina. Although it starts slowly, everyone needs to read number9dream.
because This is where I wax Lyrical about literature... ]
In other news, the general moosh of Starbucks Barristadom is ok, but the tendency to insert random words of neither meaning, consequence or relevance into conversation there is gradually increasing, along with the urge to squeeze poor david until his eyeballs bulge uncontrollably. Usually, one would have to wait to have something to say before adding a journal entry (and I must confess, I'm adjunct to deleting those without interesting titles - Too many lives, too little life to brush against them with), but in this case I'll make an exception, in that surely my presence is highlighted by its absence, and more surely, the epitaph of an ending should be obscured finally by a new message, although in this fairly winding stream of too much consciousness and too little narrative, I think that there's little chance of spewing hope and reconciliation to the veritable masses who encounter it...
I'm still busy meeting one person a day, whether fleetingly or otherwise, and putting an entry down for each in an empty diary... high up on my list was Umbrella Girl, who happened to be carrying a beautiful hand-woven parasol, despite the lack of any weather to speak of. When asked whether she knew something I didn't, the flat reply was to the effect of what it depends what you know, but that it's got to rain sometime. Previous to this was clinton's card girl who received one of the prolific number of origami cranes I give out with stuff written in them - some lady was screaming in the street in a most distressing manner, but no-one in the queue even turned their heads. I questioned quite loudly whther it was wrong to be concerned by this sort of thing, at which point the girl ahead of me burst into raucous laughter, from which only conversation or embarrased silence could be birthed.
Also added to the not insignificant list of phone numbers I'm unsure as to how I came to receive, are those of;
"The girl known only as Millie," whose repeated passing of a friend and I in the street prompted an eventual exchange of biscuits for pieces of a person - by which I mean things about a person, rather than anything that one would expect to find in small sealed jars in the fridge of a serial killer.
"The second Honorable schoolboy," who should probably be the real honorable schoolboy, If I hadn't already applied that moniker to public school educated, tall, cricket captain-chinned Will at work. Actually I rescued This guy from the critical attentions of an aging uber-feminist that was busy haranguing him on the bus. We talked about nuclear physics on the journey for a little while, much to the consternation of the guy behind us...
There's Loads of others, but anyone who has been inclined to read this far probably deserves a medal or something similarly oblique. all the Care, B.