This report is taken from PN Review 215, Volume 40 Number 3, January - February 2014.
A Short Catalogue of Three Concurrent ExhibitionsWhat, Why and Where It Happened
First Room
- Where, eh, what was it? [Not a very brilliant start!]
- Look! The first place we visited together! (Now, bafflingly, posing as something else.)
- Yes. I was pretty much a regular visitor here for years before I met you.
- Where I sat waiting for the next (absolutely endless) 25 minutes to pass. [Which they duly did, of course.]
- But only many years later did I realise quite why you had brought me along here with you. [Really? Then why not just say why?]
- In the shadows of which she must have played so often as a child. [With others, naturally. So. Precisely where are all these former children now? (One! Even one!)]
- Where I remember thinking for the first time: 'Oh my God! Women!' [Such hopes! (A busy street in the city centre.)]
- Where something like the clouds seeped in through the window… [Why? (Or, rather, what?)]
- Where I first became aware of the fact that I had something called 'an Auntie'. [Another street, as it happens, in the same bloody city centre!]
- Where I heard somebody yelling about somebody else's mother.
- Where one of us hid rather brilliantly inside a cupboard. [Metaphor, presumably?]
- Where I did something utterly unforgivable with a rather ornate old family heirloom.
- 'How the Hell did I manage to get this car to the wrong side of the river?' [These everyday miracles!]
- The dead-right street which we truly thought we might well end up living in. [(After all, other people did, didn't they?) (Yes. ...
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