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Illingworth’s consulting room

Illingworth’s peculiar Bedminster consulting room, equipped for colonic treatment. Clinical space by designation; klismatic theatre in practice.

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Illingworth’s consulting room was, as they now found, and notwithstanding the signal lack of spavined fauteuils and rotting feet of pachyderms, decidedly peculiar. In the centre of the room, a hospital bed took pride of place, vey grimy and battered and wretched, and evidently rescued, either many years before from a closed mental facility, or perhaps more recently from some hipster’s schlafkamer. Underneath the window, from which a Venetian blind…

Enematopoeia absenting herself in search of the provender above specified, everyone else settled themselves in Illingworth’s consulting room in anticipation of Vlad the inhaler’s apologia pro suae ecolaliae. Illingworth subsided plumply into his nasty little plastic chair, Clismathea arranged herself seductively upon the unpleasant desk, and Lord Snatch sought his elusive ease upon the closed-madhouse or hipster hospital bed. For his part, Vlad the Inhaler vey tribally … er ……

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