HIDE AND SEEK by Andy Humphrey
A story recently published in ‘Something Peculiar’ (Black Shuck Books 2023) HERE
Reviewed as part of my ‘Dessemination’ project HERE
My previous reviews of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/andrew-humphrey/ and https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/2023/02/18/duck-egg-farm-by-andy-humphrey/ and https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/the-alsiso-project/
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“. . . demeaning.”
Demeaning or dreaming, this is a remarkable story in stages of a man’s age having first been harassed, when he was 8, by an older lady in a town park and induced to play hide and seek, with elements I will not spoil here by divulging. It has elements of Aickman with gradual regard to the meaningfully de-meaning, even de-spelling, development of his own life and his sister’s life, with references to his mother and the Findus food he liked, and the worlds-apart places where he was subsequently employed and the seeking game followed.
I can say, beyond question, that it is a major work in the oblique and slipstream, as well as mainstream, a claim I make with the experience of THESE reviews under my belt.
He was eight at first, but claimed to be nine. The former being a vertical lemniscate.
Findus endlessly to purge the Zeno’s Paradox of the game?
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