The universe wants to play with you (Part nine)

Aaron and Merlin sat at a table squashed by the wall, adjacent to their impressive array of computer equipment, complete with tracking devices, monitors, everything shiny and hi-tech. The irony wasn’t lost on Merlin that modern technology is, in certain circumstances, easily bested by the primordial violence of the vengeful.

A silence, brought on by the imminent arrival of Gillespie Quigg, added to the already despondent atmosphere. Quigg, if born centuries earlier, would have been the perfect witch finder or member of the Inquisition or something else equally intimidating. He had the knack of making you think he already knew something that you wanted to keep secret, so you ended up telling him anyway.

The universe wants to play with you (parts 1-8)

I discovered something yesterday. Or at least I think I did. You can never be too sure these days with all the strange things that are happening around the place. And anyway, my grasp on reality has never been the same since reading Philip K Dick’s Exegesis. At least the weird dreams have stopped for now-I think. So I was on the side of the library waiting to cross the road to the café and through the window, I saw a girl, well, a woman who was the spitting image of me. I didn’t have my glasses on because vanity always gets the better of me but it was just like looking in a mirror; she was so identical. I moved my arms to see if she did the same; she didn’t. That got a man staring at me. I crossed the road, peering intently at her. As I went in, she looked towards me and it seemed like she quickly turned away. I got a coffee and went to sit down and she’d gone. As if by magic which is I suppose the correct thing for a doppelganger to do. I couldn’t see her through the window in either direction. I took the coffee and sat outside so I could have a smoke. It’s an uneasy feeling having a doppelganger unless I was just hallucinating again. I should have asked if anyone else saw the resemblance.

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The Social Deviants

 

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Well, it's been a while since I've posted on the blog; as usual for a variety of reasons. Most recently the lack of an internet connection due to an unfortunate unpaid bill put paid to any chance of updating anything. This was swiftly followed by a pulled tendon on my wrist.

Aside from that, the year has been going swimmingly in some ways. I've been doing a lot of reading, including fiction, for the first for quite some time and in a systematic way. I've been reading the Johannes Cabal series of books by Jonathan L. Howard which are both clever and amusing as well as a series by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris about the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. This is like a steampunk version of Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May books which are also worth reading.
On a political level, I've been revisiting Loren Goldner's writing whose analysis of the trajectory of the last 100 years of capital is incredibly persuasive. Particularly worth reading is: