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Chapters (69)
  1. Copyright Notice
  2. THE MILLENNIUM
  3. DON
  4. HANNAH
  5. KAREN
  6. DON’S MOTHER
  7. PETER
  8. THE MOTHER
  9. DR. BROWN
  10. HANNAH’S FATHER
  11. SERGEJ
  12. MOTHER
  13. THE RUSSIAN
  14. THOME
  15. THE RED DEER
  16. THOME’S FATHER
  17. WALTER
  18. KAREN’S BIG BROTHER
  19. PATUK
  20. OLD WOMAN
  21. POLICEWOMAN
  22. BEFORE THE INTERMISSION
  23. INTERMISSION
  24. HUMANITY
  25. SIR ERNEST (EARL)
  26. COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
  27. PROGRAMMER
  28. MA WEI
  29. CARL
  30. THE FRIENDS (BEN, KEMAL, PAVEL, MAGGY, RACHEL)
  31. BODYCAM MAN
  32. MAGGY
  33. MR. M.
  34. ROGER
  35. THE AVERAGE ENGLISHMAN
  36. THE LAB DIRECTOR
  37. HONEST MAN
  38. JOB NOMADS
  39. COURIER
  40. BOXER
  41. ATTACKERS
  42. THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PROSTITUTE
  43. KEVIN
  44. SWEATING MAN
  45. BERTA AND HENRY’S
  46. RACHEL
  47. YOUNG MEN
  48. ARTHUR
  49. STUDENT
  50. ROB
  51. A WOMAN
  52. PHILOSOPHER
  53. THE MATTRESS SELLER
  54. ABDULLAH B.
  55. THE PRO-LIFERS
  56. PROFESSOR DR. KUHN
  57. JON
  58. PROFESSOR
  59. MIDDLE-AGED TEACHER
  60. WOMAN WITH THE THINNING HAIR
  61. BANKER
  62. THE CHILD
  63. THE NEW PRIME MINISTER
  64. MADAME CECILIE
  65. THE JOURNALIST
  66. THE WORLD
  67. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  68. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  69. Newsletter Sign-up

The evening ends with a fisting of the woman, following the introduction of a few bottles into her, one of which can’t be removed. The video brings in two dollars.

Utter shite

Thinks

MI5 PIET

Quickly looking at the porno. Double-checks the data of the participants. Uninteresting. Not relevant. And the cock. MI5 bursts out laughing. Coffee on the various keyboards. He has stayed a bit—shall we say—childish. He’s retained that. The childishness. And loves words like noodles, willy, pussy hole.

Yes. All joking aside.

Pan to the villas on Holland Park.

In one

THOME’S FATHER

Is writing

Talking aloud, a bit of spittle sprinkling onto the handmade paper,

A cigar smokes itself in a crystal ashtray. On the wall hangs some forefather, looking down with his degenerate, smug facial expression at his great-great-great-grandson. And there, the double glow reflected in the window, you know how it is, symmetry.

Thome’s father has had enough of these speeches. Of the phrases that represent the dumbing down of the populace, la la la: militant democracy, reclaiming our values. The great lie of a society that’s supposed to take care of everyone but that always comes at the expense of the working man, the preservation of Britishness, security, fairness, public resources to those who deserve it, those who work for it, who participate, those born here, the whites, who do all the work and won’t let outsiders come here and take the piss, personal responsibility, a societal cancer, fighting these vermin, cohesion, prosperity, “I assure you, my utmost concern will be the security of the earnings of ordinary British people, the doers, who make use of their full potential both in their work and in their leisure activities…”

This is really going to be an incredibly shite speech. People will cheer. Thome’s father looks at his library. All works by old men who think they are the only ones to have discovered their own transience, who fantasize about young women, bemoan the wishy-washiness of their loins, as if it were a fate limited only to them.

Thome’s father reaches with his liver spot–covered hand for the barrel-aged whisky. “Infernal stuff, old man.” Flabbergasted, Thome’s father looks around. “Yes, I mean you, old man.” It’s the crystal glass that appears to be trying to have a quiet conversation with him. “Old man,” the glass continues, “if you are honest with yourself, you know that it won’t work much longer. And you know that you’ve got maybe ten more years left. Half of them you’ll spend with arthritic hands gripping a walker. A nurse will feed you, you’ll wear diapers. You’ll contemplate the half-witted baby that you fathered with your rotted genes. You’ll die, nothing of you will be left behind. So why, why do you want this power that you can no longer savor?”