Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet followed the contour of the motorway for some distance, before turning right quite sharply at the St Paul’s roundabout. Within a very few minutes, he was perched in the familiar tree in Robertson Road, looking down upon the familiar building which lay at the junction with Foster Street. —
Hawksmoor Perroquet
Club Autonomie had changed but little in the intervening decades, save that its air of dilapidation had become somewhat more pronounced. The same calls to revolution papered the windows, and were obscured by the same accretions of grime. And it seemed that the same weather presided over the place, for a viscous and slimy rain began to dribble from the uniform greyness overhead, and Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet recalled that this was exactly as it had been all those years before, and shivered slightly, and bethought himself that it was not quite as hot as it had been earlier in the week. —
Club Autonomie
At length his patience was rewarded, for a motley figure appeared in the distance, and gradually resolved itself into the hideous creature who was the custodian of the grove. Medusa looked up and espied Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet turning to stone in the tree. —
Medusa
“I, Hawksmoor Perroquet, on this April Fool’s Day do take an oath before Bakunin, Kropotkin and Proudhon, the presiding spirits of non-hierarchical social organisation, here in this profane temple, that I will refrain from all equine anaesthetics, talcums of Medellin and amphetamine-based substances for a period of twenty-one years to come. And this I swear upon the Book of Autonomous Actions now lying open before me, and may I be robbed of my remarkable linguistic and cognitive abilities if I break this my oath.” —
The Book of Autonomous Actions
“In that case,” said the Mayor very wearily, “would you by any chance happen to have about the place any equine anaesthetics, talcums of Medellin, or amphetamine-based substances?” —
Equine anaesthetics
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