hachete's Journal: Joker Wild

1.Tobruk. December, 1942.
The horse-race is on. He stands before a W/T truck: tall, blonde hair combed back, moustache neatly trimmed. His long shorts cover legs that don't look like the worst knobbly knees on Blackpool Beach. Desert boots planted firmly in the sand. He has the look of Chapman about him. On the table behind him, just out of reach of enlargement, is an open notebook. It's cream pages and blue lines slowly turn in the desert wind.

That night, the fox's yelp gave way to radio-chatter, shell-bursts, screams.

2. False Memories.
recalled a horrifying incident that occurred when he was four or five years old. His teacher caught a book of poems, cut out some of its lines, smeared the alliteration over his body, and then handed the pen to him, expecting him to finish the animal. When he refused, his teacher poured burning pentameters over the remains of the book.

3. Phantom Limb Syndrome.
Researchers who search for lost information frequently report that when they are touched by "good data", they feel as if the sensation came from the missing limb.

In 70 per cent of disregarded writers, there's a continuation of sensation for the lost book or poem. Some researchers even believe that those lost artifacts still exist.

4. Delivery
A brown envelope arrived today at the Porter's lodge, addressed to me. I spotted it's overseas stamp standing proud in the labelled pocket. It lay on the table as I sipped tea carefully. I couldn't...stop myself pawing the envelope with sweaty fingers. The envelope came apart clumsily.

5. Goethe
Yeah. Even Goethe was suckered by Ossian.

Goethe to Henry Crabb Robinson: "Werther praised Homer whilst he retained his senses, and Ossian when he was going mad."

Yeah, right. Can you believe that bullshit?

6.Forensic.
To establish the truth, the correct cause of death, we will have to defrost the body one more time. We know there is an arrow head buried in his shoulder. We need to see whether or not it was this that caused his death. We cannot be sure until we do so.

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