You used to come to life here… You still do.
The tumblers cascade: words and numbers; a thousand castanets building to a crescendo before gradually falling silent, their song reminiscent of pebbles driven before a wave. The commotion echoes in the void; ricocheting off the brickwork; through the exposed iron.
The departures board at Paddington talks; somehow poignant and yet at the same time visceral, you whisper in my ear.
How could it convey information in a manner that seemed, somehow, sensual? Like so many postcards home.
We all contrive meaning, you said. I believe it’s called post rationalisation, I responded. I don’t like that phrase; it implies cynicism. I would rather think of it as the jigsaw of life; a means of furnishing context, you replied.
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