The Magdalen Martyrs
“As my lifewent on, my mini paranoia would save my life more than once.”
Edward Bunker, Memoirs of a Renegade I didn’t get back to Bailey’s till late afternoon. You take a walk through Shop Street, you better not be in a hurry. You meet your past, remnants of a shaky present and forebodings of the dark future. The past is represented by school friends, who appear old, shook and furtive. The present dances in a swirl of rain, refugees and lost winos, the future through the number of mobile phones... and the hieroglyphics of text. An overall effect of bewilderment.
Years ago, a radio programme called Dear Frankie ruled the waves. Frankie sounded like Bette Davis on a particularly bad day. The whole country knew the show. Problems sent to her seemed more ordinary, more solvable. Her answers were terse, acidic and shut down the prospect of long debate. Interspersed with commercials were snatches of Sinatra. You couldn’t call her anything as lofty as the nation’s conscience, but she did seem to embody a combination of good humour with scathing wit.MoreLess
Edward Bunker, Memoirs of a Renegade I didn’t get back to Bailey’s till late afternoon. You take a walk through Shop Street, you better not be in a hurry. You meet your past, remnants of a shaky present and forebodings of the dark future. The past is represented by school friends, who appear old, shook and furtive. The present dances in a swirl of rain, refugees and lost winos, the future through the number of mobile phones... and the hieroglyphics of text. An overall effect of bewilderment.
Years ago, a radio programme called Dear Frankie ruled the waves. Frankie sounded like Bette Davis on a particularly bad day. The whole country knew the show. Problems sent to her seemed more ordinary, more solvable. Her answers were terse, acidic and shut down the prospect of long debate. Interspersed with commercials were snatches of Sinatra. You couldn’t call her anything as lofty as the nation’s conscience, but she did seem to embody a combination of good humour with scathing wit.MoreLess
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