The 100% Perfect Girl
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighbourhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her...
Limbo
The Death Of LullyTowards evening they received a visit from the captain. He was a large, handsome man, with gold earrings glinting from among a bush of black hair. "Divine Providence," he remarked sententiously, after the usual courtesies had passed, "has called upon...
The Owl & The Pussy Cat
It's rare for the inclination to make a mix to coincide with having working software to do it, but it happened a few months ago. Sooo... 'ave a listen if you fancy. There's a lot packed onto it including Kid Koala, Third Culture, Fridge, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lord...
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
It is said by men worthy of belief (though Allah's knowledge is greater) that in the first days there was a king of the isles of Babylonia who called together his architects and his priests and bade them build him a labyrinth so confused and so subtle that the most...
The Malay Archipelago
Among the things I had sent for was a box of arrack, and I was now of course besieged with requests for a little drop. I gave them a flask (about two bottles, which was very soon finished, and I was assured that there were many present who had not had a taste. As I...