Vail (1984)
“Each time he had given them a different name, address and occupation. Either they were incompetent or the national computer wasn’t functioning properly, or his luck was just too good to be true. Then again, maybe they really couldn’t care less: he was a scrounger, a layabout, a fringer, – no real threat to society except perhaps for a spot of petty larceny and the odd rape here and there. Why waste a cell on a useless swmbwl such as him?
If they locked up all the useless swmbwls they could find... there wouldn’t be room for the Krays and Kagans of this world.
He could remember the moment of decision exactly. It occurred while he was standing on the pavement outside an electrical retailer’s at twenty minutes past ten one night watching twenty-two television screens showing the same identical face. A woman in a beige hip-length coat walked by and laughed in her throat at his expression. Vail didn’t hear, – or if he did paid no attention: his gaze was fixed, rabid. The idea seemed very simple and obvious, and he wondered why he hadn’t thought of it before.MoreLess
If they locked up all the useless swmbwls they could find... there wouldn’t be room for the Krays and Kagans of this world.
He could remember the moment of decision exactly. It occurred while he was standing on the pavement outside an electrical retailer’s at twenty minutes past ten one night watching twenty-two television screens showing the same identical face. A woman in a beige hip-length coat walked by and laughed in her throat at his expression. Vail didn’t hear, – or if he did paid no attention: his gaze was fixed, rabid. The idea seemed very simple and obvious, and he wondered why he hadn’t thought of it before.MoreLess
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