Archive for May, 2006

Of missing cats and wind-up birds

I suppose it was inevitable that the choice for the first entry on this part of An Unreliable Witness would end up being between a novel from a Japanese writer or a melancholic song. However, since I’m currently trying to identify the melancholic side of my music collection - and kidding myself that there is […]

Things to do at 4.00am #1

It was some weeks ago that I took the precious jewel from the box in which I hide it - a box which I usually only open when there are thoughts of you and me and us and them whirling through my mind before the break of day. I’ve now rubbed the jewel so soft […]

Misfits #1: not our world

No, you stand corrected. This isn’t our world. This is much more. This is our universe. You just don’t realise it. We outnumber you by at least ten to one - it’s just that we keep very quiet about that fact. We refuse to subscribe to your way of thinking, but we do so in […]

Silver(f)ish and shine me shiny

I feel as if I’m at a film premiere.
My senses are being assaulted on a daily basis by spangled stars and glitter. Everywhere I look there are shiny surfaces and metallic reflection. Everyone is inwardly pleading, “Notice me, notice me. I’m special. I’m shiny. I’m more than the sum of my parts. I’m more than this […]

Goodbye to all that

Don’t analyse it to death. It’s only blogging.”
It was 11.00am this morning when I sat down in front of my laptop and put those four words into the title field of this entry. As I write these opening lines, It’s now just past 9.00pm at night. No, obviously I haven’t spent ten hours typing away at […]

Veins

Unforgiveably, perhaps, I have decided that I would be a superb drug addict. I am fascinated by the path that substances take through my bloodstream, and the effects of them entering my nervous system, my brain, my mind.
How did this happen? When was I consumed by these responses? I can sense, deeply sense, the unbreakable chain […]

Misheard

Bulgarian female choirs serenade me in my room, their unearthly wailing almost managing to drown out the Saturday morning shoppers and traffic outside. Sometimes I regret the stupidity that caused me to miss out on learning a foreign language, but not at a moment like this, when I can hear nonsense sentences created in the […]