Rohan Quine's Blog, page 11
March 24, 2013
31. “We’ll all adore you”
“Privacy, such as Lucan hustling you...
31. “We’ll all adore you”
“Privacy, such as Lucan hustling you into Downstairs, facing you into a corner at the back and putting a paper-bag over your head?”
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 31 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook31.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 31 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook31.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 31:
In the studio Rik tells Jaymi and Alaia that for variety this Thursday’s second big broadcast, now named Big Bang, will not be live but an amalgamation of three shorter non-broadcast recordings done over the next three evenings—tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday. They do some preparatory work for this.
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March 23, 2013
The film called “EVELYN 62-39-32-84-100”, embedded on the title...
The film called “EVELYN 62-39-32-84-100”, embedded on the title page of the E-Book’s Part II (which comprises mini-chapters 18-30)
This film is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-ii
In it are coloured shadows for Part II as a whole, being just one lens’s suggestion of Evelyn Carmello and Angel’s Baby Doll, in Evelyn’s memories.
The film’s audio/text is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-ii/film-audio-text (and comprises extracts from mini-chapters 62 “Pleasure to be you”, 39 “Your painted face alive and smiling”, 32 “Evelyn picks imaginations to thieve”, 84 “Angel tries to use me” and 100 “Evelyn’s dance, with minimal effect”).
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March 22, 2013
30. “The small black toothbrush”
Halfway between the sitting...
30. “The small black toothbrush”
Halfway between the sitting room and the front door of the apartment, a bathroom door approaches me on the right, standing open, with a yellowish light on inside. I glance in, while we pass it. Nothing special there…
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 30 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook30.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 30 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook30.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 30:
Kim, Shigem, Evelyn and Alaia leave Jaymi alone with Pippa. In the bathroom he notices two toothbrushes hanging by the basin. Seeing behind her tears the beautiful place she wishes she could go to, Jaymi suggests a picnic for the two of them and she agrees.
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March 21, 2013
29. “Flight from Arverne”
Sometimes you think you feel another...
29. “Flight from Arverne”
Sometimes you think you feel another man calling out, across this town, across the world, around both the past and the present, to address you. He calls through that song inside your head … and no, you won’t meet.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 29 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook29.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 29 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook29.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 29:
Pippa takes them to her place, high in a high-rise block. Jaymi notices that the table is laid for two, though no one else lives here. He tunes in to her, finding memories of her arrival here as a child with her parents, their death, and the loneliness and sadness of her depressive but whimsical personality. Kim looks troubled when he returns alone to the sitting room from down the hallway, but says nothing of why.
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March 20, 2013
28. “Wet green eyes of Pippa in the take-away”
Her prominent...
28. “Wet green eyes of Pippa in the take-away”
Her prominent green eyes look wet and hurt, as if she’s been crying hard, though there are no tear-stains.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 28 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook28.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 28 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook28.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 28:
The five of them run into Pippa. Among other things Jaymi notices her black silk gloves and the fact that she seems somehow emotionally damaged.
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March 19, 2013
27. “A devoted fan of Alaia and me”
Remember how your feet...
27. “A devoted fan of Alaia and me”
Remember how your feet tapped the footrest on your bar-seat; remember how you reached for a white book of matches without looking down for it, to light another Capri up and draw it down deeply, your eyes growing wide until they blinked in the smoke?
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 27 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook27.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 27 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook27.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 27:
Evelyn arranges to take Jaymi, Alaia, Kim and Shigem to see her friend Pippa Vail. When the five of them pass Lucan’s crowd on the way, Lucan makes a self-decapitation gesture at them. This frightens Shigem, who assumes it is aimed at him; Lucan notices his fear and seems to construe it as guilt regarding the wax head. Finding himself and Angel a little apart from the others, Jaymi mischievously hypnotises Angel into the belief that Angel has known of Jaymi and Alaia for years and has been a fan of them throughout that time.
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March 18, 2013
26. “Shigem and I on the dance-floor”
The last two long hard...
26. “Shigem and I on the dance-floor”
The last two long hard dance tracks are slamming, with the dirtiest and deepest thumping bass I’ve ever heard and stabbing hooks of merciless, ecstatic, driving power.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 26 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook26.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 26 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook26.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 26:
While Shigem is on the dance-floor, Jaymi completes his tune-in of him, seeing his bright childhood fantasy life, his challenging but sociable adolescence, and the strength and beauty in him.
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March 17, 2013
25. “The figure in the crowd in the mirror”
There’s a quietness,...
25. “The figure in the crowd in the mirror”
There’s a quietness, seriousness and simplicity to his movements and expressions, as he serves customers, which suggest a considerable emotional vulnerability under the watchful care of a rather greater strength, coupled with a touch of sadness somewhere.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 25 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook25.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 25 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook25.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 25:
In the mirror behind the bar, Jaymi sees himself eerily as being somebody else, while on this side of the bar Evelyn, Kim and he talk.
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March 16, 2013
24. “On the sky, that face”
For hers was a song that had echoed...
24. “On the sky, that face”
For hers was a song that had echoed in your head since early childhood, a song with untranscribable notes, without a name, which you’d treasured in yourself as yours alone … but here it was without you, for all the world to hear, paired up with that beautifully alien face on the screen.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 24 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook24.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 24 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook24.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 24:
Evelyn appears and spirits Jaymi and Alaia away to the nightclub Paradise, where Kim Somerville is a bartender visiting from London. Jaymi tunes in to Kim’s boyfriend, the club’s colourful host Shigem Adele, who will soon be leaving town to live with Kim in London. In this tune-in Jaymi discovers Shigem’s rapturous recognition, while watching Sound & Vision earlier, of a vision of perfect beauty as projected and elicited by Jaymi, which Shigem has harboured throughout his life while always believing it to be privately his own alone. This establishes an enchanted unspoken bond between him and Jaymi.
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March 15, 2013
23. “A declaration of war against Lucan”
Curious, he removes the...
23. “A declaration of war against Lucan”
Curious, he removes the cloth, then jumps back in horror to see Lucan’s head with two daggers stuck deep into its forehead.
The Video-Book version of this mini-chapter 23 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/vbooks/vbook23.php
The Audio-Book version of this mini-chapter 23 is at
http://www.rohanquine.com/ebooks/abooks/abook23.php
Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 23:
Without warning, a gruesome realistic wax model of Lucan’s head, with two daggers stuck deep into its forehead, is uncovered on the bar, put there by hands unknown. In view of Lucan’s gang-leadership and status in town, this is a major provocation and Lucan vows to hunt down whoever left it.
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