Meanwhile...

...the day job lay slumbering: dreams of apostasy goaded orbs behind open lids to feverish REM, rectangular pupils dilated and contracted unseeing. Awaking with a start, the day job stretched its corpulence, the fleshy wattles quivering in waves from cranium to coccyx. It licked its lips over worn, blunted teeth: poking the tongue between generous diastems it uffished, and recalled the absence in its mental well-being. The obeisances of the shades were like the field of Carthage post Punic: fallow.

A different point of view

the actual situation of the villa in animals is as incomprehensible from this perspective as can be expected, or even more. It is only by touching the screen on the appropriate roof that a distinct sensation will signify the pressant on the correctness his or her choice.

In Animals...

...the most popoular villa name by far is 'Nicely Situated'.

Illiteracy IS terrifying...

and I think I'm not alone in this, or is the sign at the orchard end of Animals a....clue? Does the owner's name start with the second letter of the Alphabet in its traditional order?

In Animals...

...people only have the one lock on the bicycles, to a man and to a cycle. I checked.

What's he doing in there?

And there is one particular neighbour (who lives at the green end of Animals, amid damp grass and the ruins of past industry) whose villa no one has ever seen, for he wards off all potential snoops, voyeurs and correspondents (even h.n.?) with a terrifying sign blazoned across a daunting wooden fence.

In Animals: sometime messages from correspondent h.n.

In the small village of Animals there are several villas with a view of the river Icing, dedicated with inscriptions. They have such names as 'Well-adjusted', 'Pretty Face', and 'Keep Gate Free', and others that are more pedestrian, such as 'the family Miller'.

She sees...

that mushrooms grow to monstrous proportions in this postmodern age, providing shade and spray. Structures expressing internal homologies look on making bets.

Friday night all right.