Rohan Quine's Blog, page 6
May 11, 2013
76. “The pussy-cats lost in translation”
I wish I could report...
76. “The pussy-cats lost in translation”
I wish I could report that your mouth falls open, that laughter lights your face, that your ears feel like wings and your smile warms the night; but I can’t.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 76:
Jaymi tunes in to Pippa and finds her hiding under her duvet from a life she hates. Seeing this pain makes him sorry for her; he no longer wishes to go snuffling around her mind, hunting for her mysterious hidden weasel. Instead, despite knowing he cannot do the requisite active hypnotic gaze at her because she cannot see him right now, he nevertheless tries projecting a piece of fun involving singing cats.
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May 10, 2013
75. “Attitude on the phone”
“Fine for me. I’ll see you there.”...
75. “Attitude on the phone”
“Fine for me. I’ll see you there.” And our miniature bitch-fest is cut short.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 75:
In a phone call where a certain impatience flows both ways, rumours of the third wax model are conveyed to Jaymi by Alaia. After this call, Jaymi realises there was not enough time, between Kim’s use of binoculars this afternoon and Jaymi’s own discovery of the wax Angel on Damian’s path, for this wax Angel to have been transported there from Pippa’s high-rise, so whatever Kim saw behind Pippa’s window must still be there; and Jaymi realises he is the only one in a position to know this.
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May 9, 2013
74. “Golden on the beach for the last time”
Façades recede in...
74. “Golden on the beach for the last time”
Façades recede in both directions, matte brown and grey, flat as scenery or movie screens. A breath of wind in the dust stirs a cellophane wrapper on the road. Tiny in the distance, the street vista vanishes in glare: where it wets the horizon a shimmer hides the buildings, so the roadway punctures the smudgy blue sky. Shreds of air undulate thickly in the heat…
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 74:
Jaymi tunes in to Kim and Shigem who are lying on the beach, and his attention hovers there throughout an idyllically romantic afternoon in the sun.
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May 8, 2013
73. “A naked Angel on the front path”
I still cannot quite tell...
73. “A naked Angel on the front path”
I still cannot quite tell from this far away but I can see Damian’s guard-dogs pacing in agitation up and down the alleyway beside him, their tails out horizontally in the air like stiffened whiplashes. I cut across the empty street, at a trot—nearer, swaying as I go—and the dogs turn their attention to me, their eyes like pinpoints through the air.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 73:
Walking, Jaymi sees that on the front path of Damian’s house a third waxwork has been left—a life-size, full-body model of a naked, hermaphroditic Angel. Returning to the island, he realises this figure must have been what Kim has been glimpsing at Pippa’s during these last few days. This must mean that it was Pippa who also made those two wax heads, of Lucan and Kev. He is glad her mysterious weasel has turned out to be so innocent; but why would she be acting so provocatively towards Lucan and his gang?
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May 7, 2013
72. “The weasel at the window”
Suddenly you think you see, there...
72. “The weasel at the window”
Suddenly you think you see, there in the high-rise nestled at the skyline, the shape of the man in the shadows of his window. You wave … but he doesn’t wave back, because the view between the two of you is only one-way. His shape behind the window is yours to enjoy, but his view of you is blocked, for he never has thought about the mile of air between you; and the traffic-lights are lonely where you live.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 72:
Kim calls, saying that a moment ago he looked through binoculars at Pippa’s place and there did seem to be a figure behind her window, like the one he saw on her balcony with her… Meanwhile he and Shigem are about to turn their phones off and go sunbathing. Jaymi tunes straight in to Pippa, hoping she will be in her sitting room so that he can see through her eyes the figure in question; but she is in her bedroom, thinking of a man she often watches in another high-rise she can see, on whom she fixates to no effect.
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May 6, 2013
71. “Alaia swirls in decreasing circles”
I step out, head back...
71. “Alaia swirls in decreasing circles”
I step out, head back towards the ocean and look at the elephant. “Hallo Dotty,” I whisper, give her a kiss and put her in my pocket.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 71:
Jaymi wanders to an island on a small lake. Alaia calls and confesses that Lucan’s message on the phone wasn’t just Angel’s exoneration: he also threatened to go public about the General Network’s spying into people, unless the company paid him off. She failed to relay this to Jaymi and Evelyn, because she thought that if she relayed it then Jason would simply buy Lucan’s silence and the spying project would stay secret, whereas if she kept quiet then Lucan would go public and the project would be sabotaged. She confesses to a childish resentment at the initial plan to keep her in the dark about the spying. She now fears, however, that her delay will be discovered and that Evelyn and Rik will think her duplicitous and weak. She runs through a neurotic set of possible outcomes. Saying he won’t tell, Jaymi conveys qualified forgiveness.
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May 5, 2013
70. “Coldness on the beach”
We hear a magic interval between two...
70. “Coldness on the beach”
We hear a magic interval between two notes, several times—bewitching, as if an angel lives between them—and I know that I should now leave your mushroom bay. I shan’t intrude again here, so never shall I hear again that magic angel interval; but never will it leave me.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 70:
On a walk on the beach with Evelyn and Jaymi, Alaia behaves coldly towards him, making him reflect on the odd undercurrents that seem to have arisen between him and her since they’ve been here. He tunes in to Evelyn, picking up first the bewitching song elicited within her by Sound & Vision (and her knowledge that this song was a lie), then other deeply enchanted places in her imagination.
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May 4, 2013
69. “Alaia fakes for two audiences at once”
She plays it...
69. “Alaia fakes for two audiences at once”
She plays it “natural” and I play along, but I’m not feeling it.
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 69:
With Jaymi, Alaia answers an unexpected phone call from Lucan, during which Jaymi is aware of her simultaneously presenting the requisite differing pretences to Lucan and himself. After the call, Alaia tells Evelyn and Jaymi that what Lucan called to say was that the DVD has indeed now exonerated Angel.
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May 3, 2013
The film called “JAYMI 54”, embedded on the title page of the...
The film called “JAYMI 54”, embedded on the title page of the E-Book’s Part V (which comprises mini-chapters 61-68)
This film is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-v
In it are coloured shadows for Part V as a whole, being just one lens’s suggestion of Jaymi Peek in Big Bang mode.
The film’s audio/text is at http://www.rohanquine.com/video-books-films/part-v/film-audio-text (and comprises an extract from mini-chapter 54 “Big Bang: return of the giant ship”).
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May 2, 2013
68. “Movements through the wall”
I listen to her moving around...
68. “Movements through the wall”
I listen to her moving around next door while I drift back towards sleep, conscious of a chill of subterfuge and uncertainty hanging in the air of my room, seeping in through the wall right beside me here, from wherever she may happen to be positioned in relation to this bed…
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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 68:
Telling Alaia some of this, Jaymi gives her a chance to admit something of her deliberation in giving Lucan too much material; but she confesses nothing, staying on at the party for a while after he leaves. Overhearing her return to the Metropolitan later, he faithfully refrains from tuning in to her, but is conscious of disjunction in the air and mistrust through the wall that separates their rooms.
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