Pheidippides

…Always, this albatross, this evolved Hermaphrodites, this Pheidippides, wore headphones, which seemed to me to insulate their wearer, to place this soul above the petty concerns of the human swarm. I caught a snatch of Nirvana once or twice as the comet-like peregrination brought this entity back within my ambit, as Pheidippides approached and trundled past me and once more receded. Only to return again, endlessly. Shanti, Shanti. And indeed…

…the part of Rumour painted full of tongues that this personage was in some wise the offspring of Pheidippides, who as ever ran and ran and ran round and round and round the mezzanine a floor and a half above our heads. Withal, Pheidippides persisted in his or her saurian impassivity on this as on all other matters, and I paid no heed to idle tittle tattle, sharing in the…

Initially and for some weeks, my suspicions had fallen on Pheidippides, for I surmised that the insularity of this cove was a mask for weirdness, and that weirdness went hand-in-glove with the most disgusting depravity. Moreover, Pheidippides had every opportunity for such malodorous infractions, being granted that unspoken dispensation to spend those endless hours running and running and running round and round and round the mezzanine, which furthermore was accessed…