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You can tell he was a spy

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
edited June 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
because he wasn't interested.





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Sentence one: You can tell he was a spy because he wasn't interested.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    Even though he asked all the right questions, his eyes were not excited when people answered.
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  • NastNast Posts: 127
    Yet why should they be, this place place is droll... I wonder what he could tell of me.
    The king of run on sentences...
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    "This place place is droll," he said; and his peculiar way of repeating certain words made me think he was attaching significance to words beyond their basic import: a spy for sure.
  • dyaogirldyaogirl Posts: 138
    I thought as I stood in line impatiently waiting for the next teller to become available.
    '..... Ah! A perfect illustration of the poststructuralist paradox. Does the signifier "Merlot" correspond with the 'truth' of the bottle I polished off last night, or do we hold in our thoughts a different "signified" of bottle-of-Merlot-ness? Perhaps we're dreaming of the same bottle!" -FinsburyParkCarrots

  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    I felt a felt tip pen write something hurriedly under my left earlobe: when I checked moments later in the bathroom mirror it was backwards written cosde that, reversed, revealed itself as The Secret.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Cosde:it was an unedited drunk man's typing slang for "code."
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    But what WAS the secret? I still wondered as I stood waiting.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    I thought the answer might be in the way Jocelyn, the bearded cigarette girlbehind the bar plaited her armpit hair twice forwards, once back, every twelve seconds, while sneezing the word "eugarp".
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    But that was just a dream.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    That's me in the corner: even the REM song in the background took on a mysteriouos signifance.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    As opposed to mysterious significance.
  • jamjamjamjam Posts: 491
    And then I woke up, wondering what did this dream mean...
  • dyaogirldyaogirl Posts: 138
    The bearded cigarette-girl offered me a smoke. I accepted.
    '..... Ah! A perfect illustration of the poststructuralist paradox. Does the signifier "Merlot" correspond with the 'truth' of the bottle I polished off last night, or do we hold in our thoughts a different "signified" of bottle-of-Merlot-ness? Perhaps we're dreaming of the same bottle!" -FinsburyParkCarrots

  • jamjamjamjam Posts: 491
    I took it and asked "Got a light?"
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    While the drunken rock star at the bar muttered, "I woke up from the dream, I woke up from the dream", the cigarette girl blew a smoke ring through her ankle that said "The station: five."
  • dyaogirldyaogirl Posts: 138
    She leaned in to light my cigarette and I noticed something printed on the top of her head.
    '..... Ah! A perfect illustration of the poststructuralist paradox. Does the signifier "Merlot" correspond with the 'truth' of the bottle I polished off last night, or do we hold in our thoughts a different "signified" of bottle-of-Merlot-ness? Perhaps we're dreaming of the same bottle!" -FinsburyParkCarrots

  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    It was an intricate map of the waterways of Newport Pagnel, circa 1957.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    She's written "Last Stop Cafe, 1am"....and now it was starting to get smudged.
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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    the kohl message she'd written on the beer mat was starting to get smudged, and then she leaned over the till, and I realised from the view of the tattoo on her head, that the map of Puget Sound (Fins correct this bit), was in fact something far more sinister...
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • jamjamjamjam Posts: 491
    The rain started to fall down heavily, I knew I had to get out of here, get out of here fast.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    I ran out, but was still curious enough to want to see what would happen next. So I hid in the doorway across the street to watch whatever went down.
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  • dyaogirldyaogirl Posts: 138
    Jocelyn nervously started braiding her armpit hair.
    '..... Ah! A perfect illustration of the poststructuralist paradox. Does the signifier "Merlot" correspond with the 'truth' of the bottle I polished off last night, or do we hold in our thoughts a different "signified" of bottle-of-Merlot-ness? Perhaps we're dreaming of the same bottle!" -FinsburyParkCarrots

  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    But just then at that moment, who walked in only ... you guessed it... THEM.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    dyaogirl wrote:
    Jocelyn nervously started braiding her armpit hair.

    How long is that girl's hair?!! :p

    {This is not part of the story, it's just an aside!}
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  • NastNast Posts: 127
    The footclan... dun dun dun.
    The king of run on sentences...
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Maximllion Spunkenheimer IV and his protege, Mary Ann Traylor-Parkes rolled past amid a clatter of chattering splatters of champagne and evening news late edition flashbulbs.
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    they went straight for the beaded curtains which separate the cellar from the rest of the bar, and as they walked, some people surreptitously finished their drinks and left.....
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    (trailer parks - hehehehehe)
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    From across the street, I saw the basement light shine through a greasy, cloudy window no higher than the ankles of the people scurrying away.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    But as for him, you could tell he was a spy because he wasn't interested.
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