Hope you like this strange story, read by kind permission of the author and publisher. More classic horror on the way soon. Some M R James next, I fancy...
Hi from no Druids about- yes, it is THAT ODDBALL, NIGHTHAWK AT TOM WAITS' DINER, I really enjoyed that story. For me it conjured up images from a favorite oldie but goodie, ALFIE, with Michael Caine and Jane Asher and didn't the inimitable Cilla Black sing the song- Alfie- loved Cilla and Dusty Springfield and Sandi Shaw- Brit ladies with a dash of Billie Holiday- if I could write ghost stories music and musicians would be a theme- what is the difference between a theme, a meme and a conceit? Need to try to locate "How To" writing guides from college and university- seems like another woman's life. Sorry, up at 2am Ontario time- not unusual for me- if you'll pardon my wording- UA-cam gets on my case- I seemed to have lived my life, "ass backwards" - ALFIE, when our protagonist is sitting sipping tea being eye-balled by the lorry driver I replaced the joint at times with Michael Caine trying to pick up waifish Jane Asher- not that your story isn't descriptive- it is. Back to Oliver Sacks- no there's a brain I'd love to look about in- his dreams, day and night, his fantasies and his I.Q. I was trying to find something on reincarnation and the paranormal- he was interested in everything, wasn't he? Music precluded language- but of course! Doesn't surprise me- planning to re-read, Musicophilia- buy it. I used to have severe panic attacks and my safe place was our old library- the librarians all knew me but the city remodeled it and of course " new" tech- I still owe them, 1.00 and I doubt my card is good, and password- forget it! Books are an abominable price now- and I suspect the author doesn't reap a just reward for hard work...Are you adept in the other arts? I ask because I am nosy! No, it's just that the few writers I've met, could paint and were musical too- my "perfect" life once was, photo journalist then travel writer- but I of course romanticized that job- as a kid, never wanted to do the trad. stuff, get married, have 2 kids, 2 cars, 2 pets etc and be housewife- unless I WAS - SWEEP THE CAPE! UNDER COVER OF DAY, A WRITER! I have no imagination though and on all the drugs for depression and anxiety and then the ones for the side effects/affects- always get that wrong too, a human maracas! One last item been bothering me- I didn't mean to describe my imagined version of Jasper as looking like Edgar Allen Poe! A sort of odd looking little man- nope....Can we expect an original anytime soon? I probably shouldn't say this because not being well, went to see "Dracula" yesterday, bloodwork at the clinic, technician looked like Tom Waits! I wish....I haven't been able to really enjoy, a master, M.R. James- one story in particular rather bored me! Until I decided after months of dithering, Seaton's Aunt- now it's a favorite! Your interpretation and all his tales- Time for some caffeine, my cat, Moonfinn, ( yes, Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit!?) a Siamese "thug" says, "cheerio Jasper" she just finished her late night snack of dog food... Namaste ( any ideas as to how to get Putin and Company out of The Ukraine? Playing B.B Gabor's, Nyet Nyet, Soviet hasn't worked-
A cold captivating tale. As someone who lives in Northern Minnesota, I was immediately taken in & transported by your effective, complex, & keen story production. The part where the protagonist gets up to use the bathroom, & the sound of water splattering in a basin is heard:. I was like, did Jasper really just... & it's revealed to be him washing his hands... Brilliant & funny!! It's touches like that which make the listener realize how much work goes into your story narrations.. Not to mention the varying music, sound effects, & the subtle editing/mixing (and of course, the one-of-a-kind voice recitation), this is the stuff that rivals Hollywood😉! Oscar-nominated, indeed!
My only regret when I came to do the mix is that I didn't get around to dubbing the biscuit chomping. Unfortunately someone had eaten all the biscuits 👀
Yes! That's what makes his renditions so absolutely believable; it's the small, innocuous little background noises he adds in that your brain doesn't even consciously register. However, they are what tell your brain, " This is real".
People always talk about talent, but talent only takes you so far. Skill is what matters. You can have talent, but only many hours of practice can give skill. I recognize, as a voice artist myself, a high level of skill in your work. If I had a hat, it would be off to you, sir.
@@EnCryptedHorror ordinary audiobook readings. I did one of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" that I'm proud of. I'd put together a podcast if I could make up my mind what it'd be about.
What a fascinating story. It takes a few listens to sink in properly but it's beautfully written. I loved the way music came in at end; it really created a feeling of new doors opening.
Wow. The description, the detail of this story was wonderfully intense. I felt truly captured inside that chill house, and breathed a sigh of relief when our protagonist made his escape.
Well that was certainly different and subtly disturbing 😳 You've done it again Jasper! I listened in bed and couldn't stop pulling blankets and pups closer, intent on creating a comforting pile of growing warmth. And yet.....😰
It was different, wasn't it? I was so fascinated by the image conjured of the open, empty refridgerator in the bedroom. It would be quite an unusual (possibly sinister) thing to see 🤔
@@EnCryptedHorror YES! That was so disturbing. And yet it was simply an appliance in everyone's home, only in the "wrong" place...empty and open. Soooo frightening and genius. I LOVED it! I actually listened to the entire story 3 times.
Love this tale and performance, as with most of your uploads this my second listen and there is always something that I’ve missed, but duck tape is hardly conducive for a relaxed bedroom. ;-)
Hmmmmm. Due to me being rather slow on the uptake, I didn't understand the story quite as well as I feel I should have. In fact, I would go so far as to say I didn't understand it at all. 🤐
Haha! I'm not sure if I fully understand it, but then I don't understand fully a lot of "strange fiction". I think the intention is sometimes that you shouldn't understand it. However, my interpretation (which may not be what the author intended) is this... SPOILERS... Reserved young man is recognised by superior at work as being cut from the same cloth as him - i.e. a bit of a "cold fish" as it were - and gets invited to his home on a weekend. When he gets there, it increasingly looks as if he's being recruited into some kind of religious cult - a cult that worships the cold and frost, instead of the usual sun-worshipping, and that anticipates an imminent ice age apocalypse for humanity (which its members will be prepared for). He is told that there can be six members of this arm of the snowflake cult, one for each room of the house, but they are looking for a replacement sixth member. When he goes upstairs and comes out of the bathroom he sees that a bedroom door has been pushed open, allowing him to see a fridge with its door open, chilling the room. The implication I took is that members of the cult not only worship at these fridges but may actually occupy them (perhaps the sixth member died of cold in such a fridge, perhaps there is a fridge in each bedroom, and maybe that's why Edith is so slow in appearing...). The young man is sufficiently creeped out so makes his excuses and leaves, but the cold has got into his bones. Even the bus fare in his pocket has turned frosty. But he thaws out among other people and, when he gets home, his experience of Bentley's chilly worldview seems to have imbued him with a new longing for warmth and human companionship.
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for taking the time to give your take on it. I thought the fridge, conveniently deprived of shelves and such, was used to shove poor buggers in to as sacrifice to their 'Ice God'. ❄️ The sense of relief as he started moving away from the house and warming up again was the only thing in the story I absolutely understood and felt. I think this needs another listen now that I have some extra info.
@@EnCryptedHorror Ah! That is what I sort of thought. So in a roundabout, unintentional way, the experience did him a sort of a favour, ie, get out and enjoy life a bit more.
I fell asleep...not from lack of interest and anticipation, nor the narrator's voice- Take Two. Monday morning, dark still and thanks to you, Master L'Estrange, I feel, if brave enough peering out my beveled glass front door window this street will have morphed into the claustrophobic, gloomy, "Gothic" Queen Ann, Shingle Style, as such houses are called in my little corner of the world- very attractive, spacious and often painted in cheerful hues- these houses could easily be the subject of another story....I digress...back to points more salient, ie The Story...Namaste
Ironically enough, I was drinking ginger beer and rum whilst listening to this (vaping though, not eating biscuits). As for cold and fog though, I can barely remember that!
Me neither. I took it to be a change in the young man's attitude following his exposure to Bentley's cold worldview, leading him to seek out the warmth of human company. But his experience has left him haunted by the possibility of a *real* frosty apocalypse.
@@EnCryptedHorror Glad to hear that Jasper, but I don't think the story works for me. However, your reading of it and the subtle sound effects are excellent as ever so I did enjoy it. Thanks!
SPOILER... I'm also not sure about this, but I think there's a suggestion that the empty fridge is for Thomas, if you get what I mean 🥶🥶🥶 Glad you enjoyed listening. More stories always on the way...
and one of my fave John Howard stories too?!? I Sir am enjoying your channel thoroughly! :) (would be great to hear any of the excellent stories in Inner Europe and Secret Europe if they strike your fancy )
Oh my Good God!!! What a surprise! My intuition let me scroll down when watching a different video, Subconsciously I scrolled down & came across this! I am so excited because I looked to see how old it was and I just saw that it was new!!!! Cannot wait to listen, but I don’t usually listen to horror when going to sleep because of nightmares- when I do get nightmares, they tend to be sleep paralysis one’s! But since it’s your reading, it is a risk that I am willing to take! This cannot wait a minute longer! This is what happens when you over subscribe and maybe you posted it at a later hour so as to catch the American listeners. I really have to unsubscribe to a few channels! I’m a hoarder by nature and because I have managed to tame it in my every day life it’s manifested in other areas like UA-cam channels!!!! Forgive me Jasper! Please don’t question my loyalty!!! 💛🌟✨👑✨🌟💛
Very clever- what isn't included makes not one but two stories- the mundane is made malevolent by odd- I can't explain- nor do I want to inadvertently put "a spoiler" out. Certainly a different take on my favorite season! And snow- there are a few tales in the horror genre which do so, right? I think you've done The Snow? And there's a contemporary story in which snow people are "at it" when the lights go out and Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public, go to bed hibernate as it were, video games have replaced books and candles...Thank you for a break from the common place! Still dark here thanks to the INHO, stupidity of bureaucracy- changing last year's "change" -the clocks! Despondency gets one nowhere though. You watch the animals, squirrels if you lucky to live within a "wildlife" zone still. I feel such compassion for those affected with S.A.D. even in summer, those brilliant watercolor sunrises- think Turner's use of light, how he had the ability to put "glow" into the sky- those mornings which before climate change were still "crisp" if you lived where I was born- those who love to fish are dressed in their peculiar waders etc, can loaded- everywhere YELLOW. Just the opposite to this story- London, which I try to travel too via TV and film seems so colorful, neon signs everywhere, Soho, probably not how I imagine it- once a mini "sin" city- I'll check out this author- such a poetic title, building up the expectations- won't spoil it. Gave me ideas for several stories, pastels or photos- if one was artistic- Master Strange, your stories esp "Visiting Hours" are as good or better than much that's published and lauded, most of the time unwarranted accolades- my most recent purchase- money is tight but the hype was irresistible so....I want a refund- I wasn't expecting The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, BUT THE HYPE SUGGESTED A CONTEMPORARY STORY, ALMOST ITS MATCH! No wonder TV and film too sadly are pointless so often- for a generation that spends so much time on SELF, character is left unexamined- pardon me, I did it again- join a book club says therapist! Yes? And get kicked out! And I feel caught between ages- insert LOUD, RASPY, "YUP" - Jack Russell "morning chant bark" good thing as I feel like....oh yeah it's Monday....I wish I was able to go to a job....Namaste ( write that novel) Your annoying "loonie" number 1 fan from The Frozen North. An empty freezer for those treasured tomes...I take back 84 Charring Cross Road! INHO awful, most of it...missing- and with such a cast! Shameful! The "zoo" is up. Have a most excellent day. Say a prayer for my brain will you? Seriously, something is very wrong and I've been avoiding all those tests- seems to amount to yet another damnable pill...
Re: Soho, London. I think London is a city that gets pretty fair treatment in films and TV. Soho can be quite neon, and the city still has an energy and character that I enjoy whenever I visit. The suburbs beyond it however can be every bit as unnerving as this story suggests...
Hope you like this strange story, read by kind permission of the author and publisher. More classic horror on the way soon. Some M R James next, I fancy...
Hi from no Druids about- yes, it is THAT ODDBALL, NIGHTHAWK AT TOM WAITS' DINER, I really enjoyed that story. For me it conjured up images from a favorite oldie but goodie, ALFIE, with Michael Caine and Jane Asher and didn't the inimitable Cilla Black sing the song- Alfie- loved Cilla and Dusty Springfield and Sandi Shaw- Brit ladies with a dash of Billie Holiday- if I could write ghost stories music and musicians would be a theme- what is the difference between a theme, a meme and a conceit? Need to try to locate "How To" writing guides from college and university- seems like another woman's life. Sorry, up at 2am Ontario time- not unusual for me- if you'll pardon my wording- UA-cam gets on my case- I seemed to have lived my life, "ass backwards" - ALFIE, when our protagonist is sitting sipping tea being eye-balled by the lorry driver I replaced the joint at times with Michael Caine trying to pick up waifish Jane Asher- not that your story isn't descriptive- it is. Back to Oliver Sacks- no there's a brain I'd love to look about in- his dreams, day and night, his fantasies and his I.Q. I was trying to find something on reincarnation and the paranormal- he was interested in everything, wasn't he? Music precluded language- but of course! Doesn't surprise me- planning to re-read, Musicophilia- buy it. I used to have severe panic attacks and my safe place was our old library- the librarians all knew me but the city remodeled it and of course " new" tech- I still owe them, 1.00 and I doubt my card is good, and password- forget it! Books are an abominable price now- and I suspect the author doesn't reap a just reward for hard work...Are you adept in the other arts? I ask because I am nosy! No, it's just that the few writers I've met, could paint and were musical too- my "perfect" life once was, photo journalist then travel writer- but I of course romanticized that job- as a kid, never wanted to do the trad. stuff, get married, have 2 kids, 2 cars, 2 pets etc and be housewife- unless I WAS - SWEEP THE CAPE! UNDER COVER OF DAY, A WRITER! I have no imagination though and on all the drugs for depression and anxiety and then the ones for the side effects/affects- always get that wrong too, a human maracas! One last item been bothering me- I didn't mean to describe my imagined version of Jasper as looking like Edgar Allen Poe! A sort of odd looking little man- nope....Can we expect an original anytime soon? I probably shouldn't say this because not being well, went to see "Dracula" yesterday, bloodwork at the clinic, technician looked like Tom Waits! I wish....I haven't been able to really enjoy, a master, M.R. James- one story in particular rather bored me! Until I decided after months of dithering, Seaton's Aunt- now it's a favorite! Your interpretation and all his tales- Time for some caffeine, my cat, Moonfinn, ( yes, Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit!?) a Siamese "thug" says, "cheerio Jasper" she just finished her late night snack of dog food...
Namaste ( any ideas as to how to get Putin and Company out of The Ukraine? Playing B.B Gabor's, Nyet Nyet, Soviet hasn't worked-
For this reason, I never socialize with co-workers. Loved it. Thanks, Jasper!
Once in their house a person is in their world 😬😲
Best way, Jared...
A cold captivating tale. As someone who lives in Northern Minnesota, I was immediately taken in & transported by your effective, complex, & keen story production. The part where the protagonist gets up to use the bathroom, & the sound of water splattering in a basin is heard:. I was like, did Jasper really just... & it's revealed to be him washing his hands... Brilliant & funny!! It's touches like that which make the listener realize how much work goes into your story narrations.. Not to mention the varying music, sound effects, & the subtle editing/mixing (and of course, the one-of-a-kind voice recitation), this is the stuff that rivals Hollywood😉! Oscar-nominated, indeed!
My only regret when I came to do the mix is that I didn't get around to dubbing the biscuit chomping. Unfortunately someone had eaten all the biscuits 👀
HA!
Yes! That's what makes his renditions so absolutely believable; it's the small, innocuous little background noises he adds in that your brain doesn't even consciously register. However, they are what tell your brain, " This is real".
Amen!
Some people have 'gifts', which are beyond mere talent. You have the gift of story telling bro....you are superb!
I am very much taken by the writings of John Howard. Thank you for reading this strange, wonderful gem . . . winter crystal really.
Yes, I loved this story. I like stories with strange people and strange conversations.
People always talk about talent, but talent only takes you so far. Skill is what matters. You can have talent, but only many hours of practice can give skill. I recognize, as a voice artist myself, a high level of skill in your work. If I had a hat, it would be off to you, sir.
Thank you, James. Very kind of you. What kind of voice work are you doing?
@@EnCryptedHorror ordinary audiobook readings. I did one of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" that I'm proud of. I'd put together a podcast if I could make up my mind what it'd be about.
I'm not exactly sure what was going on here but l got Wicker Man chills🥶. I'm happy he escaped!
“You’re as cold as ice”, Foreigner. An expat in sunny (and hot) Florida.
What a fascinating story. It takes a few listens to sink in properly but it's beautfully written. I loved the way music came in at end; it really created a feeling of new doors opening.
Thank you Ken. It was an interesting one, wasn't it? I love stories that are just about weird close encounters.
Again! That story left me with an achy chill in all my joints and a persistent shiver. I live in the Mohave desert in Arizona.
Haha!
What a fine pastiche of Robert Aickman this is, right down to the Sitwell epigraph! Thanks for reading this beautifully.
Very disturbing, but interesting.
Thanks Nancy.
How very peculiar! A creeping sense of unease that became quite disturbing. In a quiet way...
Thanks Susan. Yes, an odd story, this one. Definitely creepy though.
I can feel the *coldness* in this tale
Wrap up warm, Miji!
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Wow. The description, the detail of this story was wonderfully intense. I felt truly captured inside that chill house, and breathed a sigh of relief when our protagonist made his escape.
That was deliciously weird. ❤ And I love the ambiguity: is there something supernatural going on here? Or is this a small cult of weirdos?
Definitely ambiguous. I think it may be just that...people are strange. But where was Edith? And what happened to the last "sixth"....?
And why groups of six? Seems like they worship . . . crystals? Ice? Being insufferably cold?
Mesmerising. I absolutely loved this!!! 👏👏👏
Great to hear! Thanks Kevin.
Well that was certainly different and subtly disturbing 😳 You've done it again Jasper! I listened in bed and couldn't stop pulling blankets and pups closer, intent on creating a comforting pile of growing warmth. And yet.....😰
It was different, wasn't it? I was so fascinated by the image conjured of the open, empty refridgerator in the bedroom. It would be quite an unusual (possibly sinister) thing to see 🤔
@@EnCryptedHorror YES! That was so disturbing. And yet it was simply an appliance in everyone's home, only in the "wrong" place...empty and open. Soooo frightening and genius. I LOVED it! I actually listened to the entire story 3 times.
Another brilliant tale read perfectly!
Thank you, John! And thanks for joining the channel 🙂
@@EnCryptedHorror My pleasure, thanks for all the great content.
Such a sense of dread - would love a discussion group about some of these stories!
Love this tale and performance, as with most of your uploads this my second listen and there is always something that I’ve missed, but duck tape is hardly conducive for a relaxed bedroom. ;-)
I like biscuits and ginger beer and the cold. I could be persuaded.
Thanks Jasper. That was great. "Worrying" horror. Looking forward to the M R James. His ghost stories are still the best.
Yes, can't wait to pop the bicycle clips on and bring out the old field glasses...
@@EnCryptedHorror that brings a particular couple to mind. Lol.
Hmmmmm. Due to me being rather slow on the uptake, I didn't understand the story quite as well as I feel I should have. In fact, I would go so far as to say I didn't understand it at all. 🤐
Haha! I'm not sure if I fully understand it, but then I don't understand fully a lot of "strange fiction". I think the intention is sometimes that you shouldn't understand it. However, my interpretation (which may not be what the author intended) is this...
SPOILERS...
Reserved young man is recognised by superior at work as being cut from the same cloth as him - i.e. a bit of a "cold fish" as it were - and gets invited to his home on a weekend.
When he gets there, it increasingly looks as if he's being recruited into some kind of religious cult - a cult that worships the cold and frost, instead of the usual sun-worshipping, and that anticipates an imminent ice age apocalypse for humanity (which its members will be prepared for). He is told that there can be six members of this arm of the snowflake cult, one for each room of the house, but they are looking for a replacement sixth member. When he goes upstairs and comes out of the bathroom he sees that a bedroom door has been pushed open, allowing him to see a fridge with its door open, chilling the room. The implication I took is that members of the cult not only worship at these fridges but may actually occupy them (perhaps the sixth member died of cold in such a fridge, perhaps there is a fridge in each bedroom, and maybe that's why Edith is so slow in appearing...).
The young man is sufficiently creeped out so makes his excuses and leaves, but the cold has got into his bones. Even the bus fare in his pocket has turned frosty. But he thaws out among other people and, when he gets home, his experience of Bentley's chilly worldview seems to have imbued him with a new longing for warmth and human companionship.
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for taking the time to give your take on it.
I thought the fridge, conveniently deprived of shelves and such, was used to shove poor buggers in to as sacrifice to their 'Ice God'. ❄️
The sense of relief as he started moving away from the house and warming up again was the only thing in the story I absolutely understood and felt.
I think this needs another listen now that I have some extra info.
@@EnCryptedHorror Ah! That is what I sort of thought. So in a roundabout, unintentional way, the experience did him a sort of a favour, ie, get out and enjoy life a bit more.
I fell asleep...not from lack of interest and anticipation, nor the narrator's voice- Take Two. Monday morning, dark still and thanks to you, Master L'Estrange, I feel, if brave enough peering out my beveled glass front door window this street will have morphed into the claustrophobic, gloomy, "Gothic" Queen Ann, Shingle Style, as such houses are called in my little corner of the world- very attractive, spacious and often painted in cheerful hues- these houses could easily be the subject of another story....I digress...back to points more salient, ie The Story...Namaste
I always fall asleep listening to things. Then they haunt my dreams.
Ironically enough, I was drinking ginger beer and rum whilst listening to this (vaping though, not eating biscuits). As for cold and fog though, I can barely remember that!
Never tried ginger beer and rum. Together, I mean. Sounds tasty 😊
I love your voice ❤
Not sure what did or didn't happen at the end......
Me neither. I took it to be a change in the young man's attitude following his exposure to Bentley's cold worldview, leading him to seek out the warmth of human company. But his experience has left him haunted by the possibility of a *real* frosty apocalypse.
@@EnCryptedHorror Glad to hear that Jasper, but I don't think the story works for me. However, your reading of it and the subtle sound effects are excellent as ever so I did enjoy it. Thanks!
SPOILER...
I'm also not sure about this, but I think there's a suggestion that the empty fridge is for Thomas, if you get what I mean 🥶🥶🥶
Glad you enjoyed listening. More stories always on the way...
and one of my fave John Howard stories too?!? I Sir am enjoying your channel thoroughly! :)
(would be great to hear any of the excellent stories in Inner Europe and Secret Europe if they strike your fancy )
Hi David, the author gave me several stories to consider, including one as you describe. I'll see if he's happy for me to record another.
@@EnCryptedHorror oh that would be just too rad :)
Oh my Good God!!! What a surprise! My intuition let me scroll down when watching a different video, Subconsciously I scrolled down & came across this! I am so excited because I looked to see how old it was and I just saw that it was new!!!! Cannot wait to listen, but I don’t usually listen to horror when going to sleep because of nightmares- when I do get nightmares, they tend to be sleep paralysis one’s! But since it’s your reading, it is a risk that I am willing to take! This cannot wait a minute longer! This is what happens when you over subscribe and maybe you posted it at a later hour so as to catch the American listeners. I really have to unsubscribe to a few channels! I’m a hoarder by nature and because I have managed to tame it in my every day life it’s manifested in other areas like UA-cam channels!!!! Forgive me Jasper! Please don’t question my loyalty!!!
💛🌟✨👑✨🌟💛
Very clever- what isn't included makes not one but two stories- the mundane is made malevolent by odd- I can't explain- nor do I want to inadvertently put "a spoiler" out. Certainly a different take on my favorite season! And snow- there are a few tales in the horror genre which do so, right? I think you've done The Snow? And there's a contemporary story in which snow people are "at it" when the lights go out and Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public, go to bed hibernate as it were, video games have replaced books and candles...Thank you for a break from the common place! Still dark here thanks to the INHO, stupidity of bureaucracy- changing last year's "change" -the clocks! Despondency gets one nowhere though. You watch the animals, squirrels if you lucky to live within a "wildlife" zone still. I feel such compassion for those affected with S.A.D. even in summer, those brilliant watercolor sunrises- think Turner's use of light, how he had the ability to put "glow" into the sky- those mornings which before climate change were still "crisp" if you lived where I was born- those who love to fish are dressed in their peculiar waders etc, can loaded- everywhere YELLOW. Just the opposite to this story- London, which I try to travel too via TV and film seems so colorful, neon signs everywhere, Soho, probably not how I imagine it- once a mini "sin" city- I'll check out this author- such a poetic title, building up the expectations- won't spoil it. Gave me ideas for several stories, pastels or photos- if one was artistic- Master Strange, your stories esp "Visiting Hours" are as good or better than much that's published and lauded, most of the time unwarranted accolades- my most recent purchase- money is tight but the hype was irresistible so....I want a refund- I wasn't expecting The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, BUT THE HYPE SUGGESTED A CONTEMPORARY STORY, ALMOST ITS MATCH! No wonder TV and film too sadly are pointless so often- for a generation that spends so much time on SELF, character is left unexamined- pardon me, I did it again- join a book club says therapist! Yes? And get kicked out! And I feel caught between ages- insert LOUD, RASPY, "YUP" - Jack Russell "morning chant bark" good thing as I feel like....oh yeah it's Monday....I wish I was able to go to a job....Namaste ( write that novel) Your annoying "loonie" number 1 fan from The Frozen North. An empty freezer for those treasured tomes...I take back 84 Charring Cross Road! INHO awful, most of it...missing- and with such a cast! Shameful! The "zoo" is up. Have a most excellent day. Say a prayer for my brain will you? Seriously, something is very wrong and I've been avoiding all those tests- seems to amount to yet another damnable pill...
Re: Soho, London. I think London is a city that gets pretty fair treatment in films and TV. Soho can be quite neon, and the city still has an energy and character that I enjoy whenever I visit. The suburbs beyond it however can be every bit as unnerving as this story suggests...
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Fill a hot water bottle, Beth. It's cold out...
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I have no idea what it meant, and absolutely loved it. I love the odd ones ❤