This weekend (apart from spending a wonderful saturday evening with Phil From Uranus seeing John Cooper-Clarke) I set up a dedicated website for the The Twisted Times novel, up loaded the whole book and spent this morning editing and adding links. The site can be found here
Fourth instalment…
The Twisted Times of Bella Basura
Chapter Three
Blabbliography In Psychogeography
The eternity heavy slow movement of dark wood and brass rotating doors spin in soporific circles, delivering me into an age-old hotel lobby off the high street. I gaze dumbfounded around the vast cavern inside. I’m looking for Dolly who has an appointment with the Princessa Pestilence here. I look around and decide this not a place to feel comfortable in, dark globes of stolen light of night hang from the nicotine brown ceiling, their throb barely piercing the gloom, arrangements of low-slung leather chairs, hardwood circular coffee tables and the polite coughing of the aging patrons desiccating in air dark with constantly re-respirated smoke of century old acrid cigars and cheroots.
I notice a wafer thin smear of black velvet lurking at a corner table, and recognise the skull-faced medusa head of the Princessa...more…