I am going to tell you about something rather distasteful and unpleasant;
but it is in the interests of literary science.
Yesterday (Sunday), late afternoon, I decided a rest was in order and lay
down on my bed. There are points of view which might hold this to be
distasteful and unpleasant, but it is not my intention to present them
here - I shall note and apologise for the excessive part in due course. For
now, I prefer you to concentrate on the facts.
As I lay down, I must have flipped on the radio, I like the radio; but,
seemingly, almost immediately, I was asleep...
Not long later, I woke in emergency mode, realising I was in the process of
being sick, my mouth filling with bile. It was real enough, although I shall
spare you the details, but the nausea passed even as I crossed from my
bedroom to the toilet, conveniently opposite. I went to the bathroom and had
a drink of water; and, surprisingly, one was enough to restore me. This was
unlike any other sickness I had ever had.
So complete was my immediate recovery that, blaming the doner kebab I had
both purchased and consumed in Camden High Street the day before, I returned
to the bedroom to continue resting. However - and, this is the distasteful
and unpleasant bit - as I entered the room, I realised that Wendy Cope was
performing, in fact she was nearing the end, of a construction of
rhythmically-stressed words of which some rhymed. I am not sure how long it
had been, but no one could sustain such material for long. Therefore, I
suspect that the onset of my apparent illness coincided with the mention of
her name. There is much that we do not know about our mental processes, but
here is a fine example of the brain taking drastic action, risking choking
its host body, to get itself out of a room filled by deleterious noise.
(The programme was called Fine Lines. A fine line between tranquillity and
nausea, I suppose.)
Be warned and be grateful. The recumbent mind is more watchful than I had
imagined.
L
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