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People Shall Be Banned
London, UK - an impossible child - Monday, March 20th, 2006 : goo
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(prologue:
int. hansel & gretchel's bedroom. morning
hansel: we really should walk the dog.
gretchel: yes i know, but he's a bit incontinent.
hansel: he's very incontinent.
gretchel: yeah.
hansel: yeah.
gretchel: but he needs to be walked.
hansel: yeah.
gretchel: oh alright then)
down the road which takes its name after a country in middle east or africa or somewhere very far away or maybe an island in an ocean, a solitary whistle to wake up the terraced sunday afternoon
all i want to do is get to the river, walk through the barricades of industrial safekeepers
round the corner, behind the first fence, there are four monuments to time and i am briefly convinced that canary wharf is nothing more but a floating film set
joy!
screams of barbed wire silenced by the gentle caresses of the bank
everything i want to touch is behind bars and fences and wires
how do you measure the memory of a smell?
then another terry gilliam memory, nature/wilderness reclaiming the pavements (is all nature wilderness, is all order an illusion?) - my tracking device is showing something odd did i press something what did i press where the hell am i will anyone know where i am but all is well the architectural abomination looms in the distance im on the right way
unperturbed, seagulls are having a siesta. these seagulls do not seem as delusional as their north london cousins (dear seagulls, please note that there is no sea on north london rooftoops. love etc)
fences fences fences everywhere keeping me in or keeping it out i dont know but my anger is rising as flags wave in the wind of deserted industrial estates
today tate & lyle will mostly be processing sounds in blue and lilac
at a pier i want it to be summer and im running at full speed then jumping in
in greenwich, albion is distributing chemicals on a busy road which looks just like any other motorway (spreading out at 60 or 80 miles an hour, flyovers and bridges in the distance, beautiful and dirty and invasive), and, on your right, caged trucks are oh so pretty, freshly cleaned and preened, waiting to be taken away
all i want to do is get to the river
and touch it
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Peter: 20th Mar 2006 - 15:01 GMT
memories and smells! i wrote two pieces about this a while back:
www.swinney.org/journals/article.phtml?id=1764
www.swinney.org/journals/article.phtml?id=1947
(you can post your writing to swinney.org also- this piece would probably fit in well there, btw!)
i liked this piece. yay text! and i like rivers too. thanks for sharing this.
an impossible child: 20th Mar 2006 - 16:22 GMT
thanks, peter, i cant actually access swinney from work (?!) but will have a look later tonight
elaine: yeah, quite - i got so incredibly frustrated yesterday, as i was walking as you just could not get anywhere close to the water... (just in case this wasn't clear in the written piece :P)
x
elaine: 20th Mar 2006 - 16:57 GMT
i know the feeling. the only really satisfyingly long walk along the river's edge that i know is along the south bank, and it's pretty good all the way to greenwich, but the north bank is very snapshot this end of the city, quite frustrating. i think it might be better further west. mind you, there are some interesting little gunnels that go down to the water at wapping that make some fantastic gulping noises whenever a boat goes by.
an impossible child: 20th Mar 2006 - 17:44 GMT
i just tried joining the swinney thing but amnt 100% how you're meant to add articles?
Peter: 20th Mar 2006 - 17:52 GMT
1. register here:
www.swinney.org/journals/submit_register.phtml
2. submit here:
www.swinney.org/journals/submit_article.phtml
an impossible child: 20th Mar 2006 - 17:57 GMT
thanks for that, peter, i just did but it doesnt seem to come up + there some funny txt/code at top end of the screen :S
Jamie: 20th Mar 2006 - 18:00 GMT
do you have cookies turned on? does the comment box on here store your name? if not then you don't and that may be why swinney does nay like ya
an impossible child: 21st Mar 2006 - 09:25 GMT
jamie i dont have a clue, was using a web cafe computer & i generally go into my idiot mode when im in web cafes so... :S
Jamie: 21st Mar 2006 - 12:12 GMT
hey lucky you, i'm in idiot mode pretty much all the time. But the web cafe was probablly your problem. Public computers are genrally set up with quite harsh restriction on what you can and can't do and what information gets stored on them about you whilst surfing. Some sysadmins will turn off all cookies making some sites break and making internet shopping not work (which is generally a silly thing to do in public anyway)
Hey, this is great writing though, and i just noticed o forgot to comment on it. It's good to see people doing things other than posting photos here. It's not done enough in my opinion. Some of my favourites here are
www.citynoise.org/article/2/by/peter
www.citynoise.org/article/202/by/peter
and pretty much any of peter's old stuff.
and there's also the writings of a disturbed young man
Peter: 21st Mar 2006 - 14:42 GMT
i gotta second the disturbed young man's writings. this one is a particular fav of mine...
anon (host86-132-66-34.range86-132.btcentralplus.com): 2nd Sep 2006 - 23:14 GMT
i used to live on the A13
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