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Time Flees Before Us All

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  The spirit flew up through that lush valley. We can't afford a regicide. Australia Undone. The mark of the beast. The shadows that marked this time. I cried last night. He undermines himself. The awe of it. There was no way down through those spiralling updrafts. Good luck to him, the intelligence officer said dismissively, and they all moved on. The conniptions. The last several times. It was cold here, as always. He had picked up Ross from the mountainside and they had gone down to Belle's Valentine's Day event. A natural born entertainer. It was so quiet up on that hill, adjacent to the remnants of that ancient forest.  Australia was the same all over, quiet next to some adjacent, ancient thing, landscapes and crystal skies and the scrabbling of this period of history. You get a bit tired of it all, the nonsensical phrasing, the lurching from one growth spurt to another, the frenemies, the symbiotic relationship which was never discussed with the host, the experimental...
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Listening to the Other Side

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  Future historians, archaeologists, archivists, always surprised by the humbleness of the circumstance, just as he had been when he had gone to visit Paul Bowles half a century before; then one of the world's most famous and admired writers.  They were fucking with his head. There was an ice addict living in his front bedroom, his mother's old room. Craigie had shown up in the early hours of one morning, on the off, sleeping rough down near the railway lines, having fallen out with his parents in some screaming match during which the police were called. Much of what Craigie said didn't make a lot of sense; and every time Old Alex tried to make sense of it, he just felt sadder still.  Craigie thought the neighbours were talking about him. Maybe they were. He hadn't invited him in; he just kind of stayed and moved his junk in without any invitation and actually, without making a specific request. And would show up every few days, sleep it off, have a shower, something to...
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