Category Archives: Naomi Robson

Liv­ing in the future

Well, the more cof­fee I drink the more impuls­ive I become and the more cof­fee I order,” explained Oscar, “so by late morn­ing I tend to feel con­nec­ted to the here and now, the ghost of Samuel Taylor Col­eridge and a quasar at the edge of the known uni­verse I’ve decided to call Ian.”

I’ll get the bill,” I said.

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The Other Georgia

There is a man look­ing in my study win­dow from the back yard. I sud­denly can’t remem­ber where I keep the cricket bat. He’s swarthy, and he’s tap­ping on the glass and say­ing some­thing which I can’t hear because I’m listen­ing to some tra­di­tional Geor­gian choral music on my head­phones and I’ve just turned up the volume as high as I can stand to get the full majestic effect.

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