Bedminster Parade
Place
South Bristol thoroughfare of laundromats, goblins and narcotic exhaustion. One of Lord Snatch’s less Homeric approaches to the Styx.
Appears in
- Odour Issues chapters:
- Pretty Poli chapters:
Connections
Who is found here
- Lord Snatch ← walks along (1 passage)
From the books (2 passages)
…Veined eyelid from within observed. He, somnambulist, surfaced into shared experience: staggering, as through Tophet or Tartarus, along Bedminster Parade, towards the river as to the Styx or Acheron. Locals with about them the foetid air of Tolkien characters on bad acid. Several vey vey dirty dwarves and unseemly goblins, randomly distributed, skulked, … er … squatting and crouching, in doorways. The mouthing of guttural, proto-Germanic, plosive and disgusting, phrase.…
…against the slanting rain, limping along a concrete canyon out in Filton, or past the cloying arcades lining Bedminster Parade, or through some dilapidated Knowle West slum; then pushing through the doors of whichever bestiary was his destination, in order to enquire within whether the proprietor had heard tell of, or even - God save us! - had pass through his hands that identical dorking bird, green and blue and…