seminar room 342

*a reference to Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979)

Italicised, verbatim from people speaking in my legal profession seminar. These were my notes:

I simply end up here; 

Outside. 

justice denied 

reasonable standard of competence 

that we are talking about

consistent failure 

This round, breathless woman;

Tap-tap-tap the senseless screen 

Grace, Tim, a dozen others

Tap-tap-tap and benzodiazepine 

What do we face toward?

What are the principles unseen 

That doth cloak the other questions; 

18 years in air-conditioning

Tap-tap-tap 

A youth word-processing 

Reduced-reduced, we are reduced 

But our fingers are clean 

Ive crossed into Zona*

And its only 10:23. 

This round, breathless woman, 

Fat puffing machine 

Tap-tap-tap sigh

Air-conditioning 

She drops her pen; all of gasp 

As she moans and reaches for the thing

Her life, her life struggling outward, 

Taunts her this marker of meaning 

One with a Spanish vista, another thinking of the sea

This girl who has never loved 

Another… 

Desmond, this is a concerning situation 

Des, mond? 

Monday

day mond

demand, 

and … 

I don’t know. 

Pantomime 

Palestine 

Palatine 

Philistine 

Philippic 

Fictitious 

Fish fingers. and

Desmond 

…raises a number of interesting points… 

Two more minutes 

Love isn’t enough, it can turn against you! 

Thank you everyone. 

see you Wednesday.