My Sister's Friend (1)

John was escorted out of his cell. It was the last time he would be. Some other inmates, as he passed, said goodbye. Some even called him by his actual name as opposed to one they've guessed. John, for the past seven years made no real impact on any others. And in a few minutes time, he wouldn't be able to change that.


Jenny was in London on a long weekend. Shopping and seeing a show was all she had planned until Monday afternoon. Then she had to pick up her little brother.

Jenny was aimlessly walking up Oxford Street near closing time for the shops. She had done more than her fair* share to help the economy today. As she started to look for a place to check up on all the day's prizes

lifted from my electronic note pad, use later and not all at once

The lines have been drawn, the frontiers made. Borders and barriers creating division.

The lines start to construct a definition, a relationship of what is belonging and what is foreign.

Without these frontiers a state cannot begin to exist. It is these borders which not only create barriers newly defined objects, they also open an opportunity for dialogue.

This example is when dialogue is replaced by physical and emotional division. The future did need not be a fortress.

A castle wall higher than imaginable separated a people. Divided and with time, the emotional bonds were replaced.

No longer are lines drawn.
Gone are the frontiers, borders and barriers.

Lost are the ties. Division and space fill the voids where the marks once laid.

Once separated, parts, no matter how close can only stay as individual components. The opportunity for one has passed.


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Sorry, again....

....I'm just too lax to be a professional at the moment but there is this coming in the new year:

Blog and bother:

The Great Western (City): the background history as an index
Start with the scene behind the bullet-proof glass
A second novella from the view of a man on the street, a secret diary from outside the ‘organisation’

Complete the ‘Sister’s friend’ story, maybe write again as a script
Write up the sketchbook’s notes for the script

Don’t forget: Fast Car, Twin Sized Bed, A View from the Edge,

Sketchbook up ideas for the new campus of the GSA, bring A4+A3 paper and my paper-roll

The Great Western party badge (pin badge, lapel badge, uniform logo, banner logo & flag etc.)

the a g + c

today, I have decided to publish the better work I have written to
the a g + c 

this is because it is a private place to read and comment on my work without the fear I have; the fear that no one is reading it.

the true fear is that some one will steal my work from me, because my arrogance creates the illusion that my work is that good.

intellectual zoom will not be abandoned.

if anything, my subconscious will make the volume of work, both here and at the a g + c increase now that my fear has been appeased

to whom it may concern

I apologise for not writing anything for you to read.

I have no real excuse or reason to why I have seemingly abandoned you.

All I can say is I've been thinking of you and this place of ours.

I, like Anneliese Mackintosh*, have been inspired to dream a little more. Write from closer to the heart. To reach the aims I want...

"...and the other thing. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard."1

I will write more, do more, commit more to this endeavour of ours.

I will write, so you can read

OW Dawson




ps;

*: in reference to a David Ford event at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh. Anneliese performed with him as well as acted as a support act at this venue. She is doing the things I want to do, but as yet, I have not fully imagined they are things I wanted to do.
http://anneliesemackintoshblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/supporting-david-ford-at-cabaret.html

1: quoted from John Fitzgerald Kennedy in a speech regarding the US's ambition to go to the moon before the 60's finished: ".....before the decade is out."