Spatial Report 3 (The effect of an evening, 8pm — 12.30am, or how things happen, or how the world changes. "For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these also are the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of being except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end." (Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing)) Delinquency Fact #1 This part of the outer island, north, does not exist. It is here, no doubt, I am here, no doubt, but ‘the world’ says it is not, and therefore I am not. Here, that is. You can tell it is here, really here, in two ways. First, look at a map of the world (unreliable way); second, come here (a possible way, although hard to prove later and also ‘possibly collaterally damaging’, e.g. separate papers advisable, and don’t tell ‘some’ people (that you are coming, or that you have been)). Chorus On the tv soldiers say they were "under fire". And a B52 came to bear. A wedding party was "taking place", say some. Weapons are fired in the air to celebrate such events. It seems a bit of upheavel, a noise, upon the nerves of the nervous ‘coalition force’ unnerved them enough to ‘respond’. Irresponsible Test #1 "errant bomb, many people killed" "a bomb dropped in response went astray" The making of a tactic (along the lines of Michel de Certeau) We are at the table. Chinese restaurant. And the food is slow to come. Three hours pass. We drink, and decide to form a band. Immediately named ‘BARF’ (Bitches And Rocker Friends). This is a very good idea. Rodney will be lead singer (as well as coach of the soccer team — just awarded a large trophy for being ‘the best and fairest’ team in the competition), Susannah will play cello, Lorraina will play piano, S.F. (mentioned in Spatial Report 2) will play saxophone ("in the same way Sid Vicious played guitar"; and her knowledge of Bruce Springsteen is awesome), Johann will play nose flute (although he is still deciding), Muge will ‘introduce’ Chinese Opera songs at ‘artefactual’ moments, Anber will drum, perform, and design costumes, Bob will oversee (with an eye on protocol), Uwe has a fine knowledge of the original lyrics of Bertolt Brecht (an important influence on the band’s philosophy) and will advise accordingly, your Archivist (LMW) will play button-accordian. Finally everyone else leaves the restaurant. And the food comes. There had been a lot of drumming with chopsticks, eg. what’s this tune. Abba got a fair airing, as did the Bee Gees. Background to tactic That this place does not exist is about as delinquent as you can get. ‘The World’ has taken on a story (and there are a million reports/stories on this story): space has vanished, got lost, gone astray, taken leave, been abandoned, gone to the dogs, disappeared. And a place appears over and over exactly where it disappeared. Amazing. The day dawns, sun shines, blue sky, thick heat falls relentless. Irresponsible Test #2 "it was misinterpreted, a bomb was dropped" "a few more of these, and we will be unwelcome visitors" "what are the rules of engagement" "the rules of engagement are anyway engaged" Summary of meal at round table graced by large silver trophy 1. Outcome: BARF formed 2. Appointment: Lorraina as keeper-of-the-faith for the summer 3. Intention: tour various empty spaces — corridors, foyers, library — leading up to performance at Bellapais Abbey (in world-aid of ‘good’ (for the soul) delinquent and irresponsible cultural practices) Submitted: 020702, LMW Archivist of Spatial Delinquency and Irresponsible Writing

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