Currently browsing category

Parafiction

Dreaming of BH

Last night I dreamed I went to Broadcasting House again. It seemed to me I crossed the road from the Church of All Souls and pushed open the heavy bronze doors, beneath Eric Gill’s statue of Arial with it’s (supposedly) truncated genitals. I must have done this a thousand times, …

The Final Countdown

Petrie wiped their mandible. Report of Preliminary Archaeological Survey of Sokar IV Planet is solid mass, mainly silicon with high ferrous content. Volcanism evident from cones and numerous igneous deposits. Drift geology indicate past presence of aitchto-o. There are 10 sites of archaeological interest on planet, all originating from Sokar …

The Borges Matrix

In June 1993, I found myself in Les Eyzies de Tayac, a village in South West France famous for its numerous prehistoric sites. Though to say that I “found” myself in the Dordogne is perhaps too contingent an expression. My visit was entirely intentional. In any case, most particulars of …