Chapter Twenty-Three ~ The Disappeared World
Because our cities are increasingly policed, militarised and made banal. Because there is a conspiracy of boredom against cities. Because the Great God Pan is long dead and we still don’t have the new myths we were promised.
(A Sardine Street Box of Tricks, Crab Man & Signpost)
Dad was very clever. I watched him all the time. He joined in more with family things than before. But not so much as to make Mum suspicious. She still complained about him gazing into space at breakfast. There was nothing like the arguments they used to have though. He was doing just enough to make Mum happy and not too much to make her wonder why. It was all pattern and pretend. I could see the shapes.
And just because Dad wasn’t disappearing now in the way he did t
