Best go grab a coffee, and as Sir Fleming heads off to the bathroom a moment, I notice a girl to the left doing exactly what I'm doing. Making notes. What's she noting? Does she know of Tetsuo Woman and the emo-fringes and the Savage Purple?
Whatever it is, probably it makes more sense than the scribbles I made a few hours ago, some story starting with;
"A man is found fully clothed on the banks of the Liffey, soaked in paraffin. 'What in sweet fuck's name is this?' asks a passing clergyman. 'Come look, see, it's only a madman on the banks of the river, stinkin of ungodly schemes. Call the national service immediately, I won't stand for anything less.'"
It tails off into unreadable hieroglyphic pot-marks.
"By Buddha's blessed fuck", a fella's saying behind me, "I just found a ten-euro note stuck tween the arse-cheeks of a Doberman."
It's a fine deranged eve, hints of further derangement to come, Dublin pulsing in the black, the heart afire, a carnival atmosphere outside, an Italian waiter asking a French girl if she'd like him along with the coffee?
She smiles in the kinda way that says "If you say anything so trite to me again I'll poke your nuts out with a brush-shaft."
He doesn't notice, he's still got it, far as he can tell, and fuck it, who am I to burst any sort of bubbles round here, the place is soaked in delusion as it is?
Sometime later we passed Blooms Hotel, which I stayed in last time I was in Dublin, back when I was still engaged to be married, back when I ended up getting plastered with a couple American tourists, telling them I had a record out and then falling asleep naked on the floor of the en-suite bathroom.
I don't know that I got laid that time either.
Thanks folks
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Article comments
1 - Cerulean
Pretty exciting and exotic. I think you should make it easier to follow if you want to do something more with it, which you might. Could be a novel. One of those why I can't find love novels, where hopefully in the end you do, perhaps?
2 - Bennett
Alriiiiight! Part three tomorrow?
Thanks The Duke, I'm making plans to fly out to Dublin, 'cause it sounds damn lively to a lad living in the rolling cow hills of Vermont right now.
Can't pick a favorite line, they're all memorable.
3 - Eric Berlin
Duke -- I dug the hell out of every inch of this. You bring strange and surreal and haunted and magical days to light like no one else.
All I can ask is that you keep it coming.
Well, maybe a bright and breezy piece of the accordance of "Today the Duke ate some Cheetos, listened to some records, and had a fabulous chat with a telephone marketer" every now and again would be lovely to let us kind of take a brake and/or cleanse the palate.
You know, or something.
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
hey folks!
Cerulean, thanks for the comments! i dunno that any such notions of novels or novellas or the like ever ran through a man's head, but i will agree that it's maybe fairly hard to follow, on account of the jumpin back and forth in time an the like. Is there anyone who truly hasn't a damn clue what's goin on?
Bennett, thank you! i'd imagine part three'll be fairly shortly also.
Eric, i see where you're comin from. sometimes i think im gettin too "heavy" or summit, but then i think hang on, i never actually said ANYTHIN! heh. but no, i know what you mean. part three starts with a discussion of kentucky fried chicken, so maybe that'll suffice for the meantime...
again, thanks folks!