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Chapter 26   To see other chapters click here   Significance and Emptiness     2018   Dream     There’s a group of us, men and women, in black paramilitary uniforms, carrying guns, running along a road in the city at night. Someone gets shot at so we run into an old hotel. There’s…

Chapter 25 The Master and The Fool   To see other chapters click here       1979   When I got off the bus I was outside St Hillier’s Hospital on the Rosehill estate, (which might have been on a hill but was certainly not rosy). The hospital was a big white building that could…

Chapter 24 To see other chapters click here     1978   During most of my stay in hospital, songs from the film Grease seemed to be playing everywhere. What appeared to be making the biggest impact were the clips from the film that accompanied the songs. Music illustrated by images goes back a long…

    Simon Mark Smith’s Autobiography Chapter 23   To see other chapters click here   “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages”. “Shakespeare” As you Like It…

Simon Mark Smith’s Autobiography Chapter 22 To see other chapters click here   Before I write these chapters I often hear parts of them spoken in my mind. So much so that sometimes I’m sure I’ve written some of it already. To check if I have done, I do a word search on a document…

Chapter 21  Simon Mark Smith’s Autobiography To see other chapters click here The Near Love Experience   Sonnet 129: Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE   Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd’rous, bloody, full of blame,…