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  • Viewed from Below

    Viewed from Below

    Remember Harry Krachtnikov? The weight of the man: slow paced, with a huge head and long thick strands of hair the colour of straw bursting out over his forehead and above and below his mouth. Trixie and Harry walked arm in arm. Neither of them believed in fidelity, and the pavement might have been Italy.…

  • This is for Roads Without Potholes

    This is for Roads Without Potholes

    ‘This is not for Europe. This is for Roads without Potholes’. Here’s ‘Arry – and this what he was writing recently. Here’s Harry Kratchnikov. ‘This is for Victory, the Fight Continues’, he also wrote. And he is on his way home. Pretend he is just a mask if you like. But he already has a life…

  • Harry Kratchnikov

      A pile of notebooks of varying sizes but each one carefully bound in ochre leather have, as recently reported in at least one of the better newspapers, been discovered in what must be described as a condemned building, some in various cupboards, some scattered about on different floors. Gathered together by one member of…

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