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archipelago – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;too many islands. Prison suited Smith. He felt at home. He felt persecuted. It was just as he always imagined. Did any of these thoughts, either concrete or abstracts, originate in his sensory experience of the jail cell? He told Oscar about the empty hand and the pointing finger. An empty hand, eh? Smith dared to ask.

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anarchy – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;the suburbs are falling apart. No longer the reserve of the variously disaffected and drunken children from the lower socio-economic bracket, smashing phone boxes and urinating in letterboxes have become two of the weapons in the arsenal of a new upper-middle-class intelligentsia. Attempts at speaking to these teenaged f...

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atavistic – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;reverting to an earlier type or resembling a long lost ancestor rather than either of one’s parents. Henry’s mother was less than impressed. But Henry was certain this was his true ancestor. What the hell’s wrong with you? Elicited no answer from Henry other than the cessation of his inane grin. Once Henry had bought Osc...

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awash – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;much too much. This is a service industry after all, a self-proclaimed prostitute told me. We can’t expect our clients to travel half way across the world to drop in. And dropping in, they have been by the thousand. Business has never been better, I am regularly informed. And well might it have been different then, in th...

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ardour – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;heat which comes from inside. No one spoke a lengthy period (of somewhere between one minute and three minutes) a silence in which three of them wondered about the significance of the picture before them, and in which one of them was in awe of its beauty. I can’t see it, Henry confessed. Helen shook her head in order...

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audience – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;the person or persons with nothing at all to do with the action on stage. Little else, apart from boredom, severe retardation, a coma, acute confusion, complete mental vacuity, or overwhelming fear. What did Henry do? But what could Henry do? What would Henry do next? What can I do? Why is everyone looking at me? You are...

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anxiety – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. Concern about a danger which is either real or imagined or a nervous disorder characterised by a state of disproportionate uneasiness and agitation. Proven conclusively to be Shame on you Henry! The face of a young girl momentarily presented itself to Henry. When Oscar McSweeny came tumbling through that same door, Henry’s wo...

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automaton – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;it’s human nature. What else could Helen do? Nothing. Helen could do nothing else but do what Helen would do, should do, could only do, must do, is about to do, is doing right now. And what must Helen do? Helen had little choice but to jumble up the newspaper’s central filing system. Don’t we keep computer records? What ...

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besmirch – thedictionaryofoscarmacsweeny

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The fictioanlised account of my life. My life as literary fiction. I’m a worthy subject. Oscar MacSweeny – the protagonist. I am the protagonist. I am the stuff of literary fiction. 8230;to somehow lessen, reduce or undermine, to discolour. Some time later, when Henry was sitting facing him, sitting on the upturned bucket of margarine taken from the back of the canteen, Oscar felt the weighty significance of each word he uttered. They can’t be trusted, Mrs Merryweather went on. Give them an inch and ...