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The Ice Cream Van That Only Plays at Midnight · Muggle Snuggle: A Boring Harry Potter Podcast to make you Sleep

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  Speaker 1: A Coloured Juice Podcast Studio Production presents... It is twelfth
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  Speaker 1: past twelve on Monday night. I am standing at my
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  Speaker 1: own gate in slippers with my notebook open and my
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  Speaker 1: pencil up, and the hatch is lit. Three nights I
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  Speaker 1: have watched the van from my window, and my bin watch,
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  Speaker 1: and my gate, and three nights the hatch has glowed
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  Speaker 1: the same warm square against the dark, the way serving
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  Speaker 1: hatches glow when there is serving to do. But tonight
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  Speaker 1: is the first night I have stood close enough to
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  Speaker 1: see what the light is for. The van sits outside
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  Speaker 1: number nine, where it always sits, eleven feet of curb
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  Speaker 1: holding it. The way curbs hold everything due. The chimes
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  Speaker 1: have played and cut, eight bars and four and nothing,
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  Speaker 1: the way the notebook has it. And at the hatch,
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  Speaker 1: spaced the way polite Brits space everything, stands a queue.
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  Speaker 1: Three figures. Tallest first. Slowness last, unmoving in the lamplight,
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  Speaker 1: the way queues stand when the serving is worth the standing.
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  Speaker 1: I have sketched them twice from further off, working fast
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  Speaker 1: before the details clueled. Tonight I am close enough to
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  Speaker 1: count the coings. Tonight the page walks the stake out.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight the queue gets its evening. I did not move.
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  Speaker 1: I did not breathe loudly. The way you do not
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  Speaker 1: breathe loudly near anything served. Eleven stairs behind me. two
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  Speaker 1: inches of curtain, one gate. The tall one stepped to
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  Speaker 1: the hatch first, the way tall ones always go first,
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  Speaker 1: and something silver passed from hand to hatch, glinting once
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  Speaker 1: in the warm square, and something white came back, small
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  Speaker 1: and swirled, held the way cones are held. A second
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  Speaker 1: figure stepped up, silver passed, white came back. The small
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  Speaker 1: one last, reaching up the way small ones reach. Standing
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  Speaker 1: on tiptoe on the cold curb outside number nine. Silver passed.
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  Speaker 1: White came back. Three served. Three paid. No change seen
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  Speaker 1: coming back. The way no change comes back when the
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  Speaker 1: change is exact. And behind the small one, at the
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  Speaker 1: rear of the line where Mr. Pettifer's pencil put a
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  Speaker 1: fourth shape on my sketch without asking, stood nothing. No fourth.
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  Speaker 1: No shape. Only lamplight and curb and the dark, holding
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  Speaker 1: the place where a fourth would stand. I logged the
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  Speaker 1: nothing with the time, because rear gaps are data too.
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  Speaker 1: Three witnessed. Once applied, zero standing. The notebook files cues
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  Speaker 1: the way it files everything. Tallest first, smallest last. Fourth nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Stay in the warm with me. By the end of
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  Speaker 1: this hour, you will know what I stake three midnights
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  Speaker 1: to witness, night by night, the way stakeouts deserve. Night one,
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  Speaker 1: the first music, the window station, and the hatch light
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  Speaker 1: seen whole for the first time. Night two, the rain night,
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  Speaker 1: the bin watch doubled as stakeout, and the plate read
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  Speaker 1: through rain and hatch glow. Night three, the gate night,
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  Speaker 1: the queue members one by one, and the payment past
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  Speaker 1: hand to hatch, with no change coming back, and you
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  Speaker 1: will know who buys at midnight, and what the van sells,
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  Speaker 1: and what the street says about customers it has never
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  Speaker 1: queued behind, and why the force shape stands nowhere three
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  Speaker 1: nights running. The margins are told. The page is tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The stakeout is first. Good evening, and welcome to Muggle Snuggle.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Hugh. I am 28 years old. I
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  Speaker 1: live at No. 4, Bramble Lane, and as of this
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  Speaker 1: week I am a man who has stood in the
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  Speaker 1: rain for other people's supper, which my sister has already
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  Speaker 1: described as standing about at midnight for vans that do
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  Speaker 1: not sell to him, possibly with the butter knife story
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  Speaker 1: attached for emphasis. Though this time she added the diagnosis
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  Speaker 1: underneath it, and I am giving it to you exactly,
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  Speaker 1: because the notebook takes testimony from all sources, including family,
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  Speaker 1: especially family. Quote, You will catch your death, Hugh. End quote.
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  Speaker 1: You will catch your death. I did not. I wore
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  Speaker 1: the dressing gown over the pyjamas, regulation and the slippers
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  Speaker 1: with the good souls, and the rain took one night
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  Speaker 1: out of three, and the death, whatever its rota, runs
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  Speaker 1: some other round. If you were back from last night,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back. And yes, this is the episode the tune
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  Speaker 1: promised you. The Van The midnight music. The queue I
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  Speaker 1: sketched twice and described nowhere. Held for a week, the
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  Speaker 1: way the notebook holds stories for their evenings. The supporters
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  Speaker 1: heard the margins earlier this evening, with the time log
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  Speaker 1: and the daytime hunt and the five empty locations, because
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  Speaker 1: supporters get the margins. Everyone else gets the page. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: the page walks on. Three nights, one queue, all of
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  Speaker 1: it in order, with the hatchlight laid out the way
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  Speaker 1: evidence deserves. To the regulars first, because regulars first is
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  Speaker 1: the rule of this house, and by this house I
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  Speaker 1: mean my actual house, number four, which has never once
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  Speaker 1: queued for anything at midnight before this week, as far
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  Speaker 1: as I know, and that qualifier is doing more work
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  Speaker 1: than any qualifier has ever done in this notebook. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for coming back. And before we go a step further,
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  Speaker 1: three things that have happened since last night because the
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  Speaker 1: street has not been idle while I have been staking. One.
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  Speaker 1: My sister rang on Wednesday, hearing that I was standing
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  Speaker 1: out for a van and said the street has stopped
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  Speaker 1: leaving me feathers and started leaving me supper I cannot buy.
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  Speaker 1: And then she laughed the way sisters laugh and said
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  Speaker 1: the butter knife has come back up the string after
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  Speaker 1: 19 years to join the queue. Then she stopped laughing,
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  Speaker 1: the way sisters stop when they mean it, and said,
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  Speaker 1: You will catch your death, which I have already entered above,
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  Speaker 1: word for word, with the date. Death. Cues. Supper. You
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  Speaker 1: will see why those words matter before this hour is out. Two.
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  Speaker 1: The Henderson's new dishwasher, the fourth, different brand, blessed with
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  Speaker 1: tap water, has completed 16 full cycles without incident, extending
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  Speaker 1: the street record by two. And Gary told me this,
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  Speaker 1: over the fence, with the shining eyes of a man
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  Speaker 1: who has beaten something he still cannot name. And then
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  Speaker 1: he knocked on the dishwasher twice, with his knuckles. For luck.
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  Speaker 1: The way you knock on anything that keeps behaving. Two knocks. Measured.
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  Speaker 1: Same as last week. I counted them the way you
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  Speaker 1: count all knocks on this street, and I am saying
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  Speaker 1: nothing further, because some counts are load-bearing, and this one
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  Speaker 1: is holding a third week. I am happy for the Hendersons.
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  Speaker 1: I am watching the dishwasher. 3. The street put its
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  Speaker 1: bins away this morning, the way streets put things away
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  Speaker 1: after pages. Leg flare wheels planted, tarpaulin folded double in
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  Speaker 1: my shed, string coiled beside it, four corners worth, tied
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  Speaker 1: in the knot I tie for finished business. Mrs. Alder's
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  Speaker 1: lid sat polished at half-past five, the way lids sit.
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  Speaker 1: My wheels stand unchalked, the crosses rained away, holding. The
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  Speaker 1: lane has gone quiet, the way lanes go after pages,
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  Speaker 1: and in the quiet, at twelve on the dot for
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  Speaker 1: three nights now, the chimes. Both notions are held, neither
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  Speaker 1: is underlined. That is the discipline. This show sits happily
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  Speaker 1: in the background while you wash up or walk the
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  Speaker 1: dog or wait for paint to dry. I will be
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  Speaker 1: here either way, notebook in hand, doing the noticing. And
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  Speaker 1: if you enjoy tonight, do subscribe so tomorrow finds you
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  Speaker 1: on its own and do share us with the nosiest
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  Speaker 1: person you know. Every street has one. In Durham, it
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  Speaker 1: is a man called Dee with his own alarm and
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  Speaker 1: his own cocoa and Dee Tonight's episode is partly your
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  Speaker 1: fault as well, because your letter taught me that the
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  Speaker 1: chimes run on more than one street, and that sentence
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  Speaker 1: has lived in the notebook since. Now, the practical first
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  Speaker 1: of the evening, and I will be brief, because three
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  Speaker 1: midnights want their hour, and tonight holds all three. If
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  Speaker 1: tonight earns its Wednesday, here is the shape of the standing.
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  Speaker 1: Two links keep it standing, both waiting in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: The supporter club on Spreaker is The Near Door. Kept
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  Speaker 1: where you listen. Nothing new to learn. Patreon takes the
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  Speaker 1: longer lane. First nights and further pages across the whole stable.
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  Speaker 1: For the truly committed. Same street either way. Same chimes.
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  Speaker 1: Pick your curb right. Lambon. Notebook open. Pencil up. night
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  Speaker 1: one first because night one is where the music started
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  Speaker 1: saturday night the bins were covered the string was tied
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  Speaker 1: at four corners the chalk sat fresh on four wheels
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  Speaker 1: and the notebook had no page for music. I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed at eleven with the alarm unwound, the way
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  Speaker 1: you go to bed before anything is due. At twelve
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  Speaker 1: on the dot I woke to chimes. Not the hall clock,
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  Speaker 1: not the church. Trimes rolling down from the top of
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  Speaker 1: the lane, sweet and slow through shut windows, eight full bars,
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  Speaker 1: the way summer vans play. Except no summer van plays
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  Speaker 1: at midnight in October, and no honest van plays to
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  Speaker 1: shut windows, I lay there, for the eight bars the
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  Speaker 1: way you lie, through anything impossible, flat, ears, open. Then
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  Speaker 1: four bars more, softer outside number nine, then nothing, cut
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  Speaker 1: the way songs get cut when the needle lifts. Mid-phrase
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  Speaker 1: I counted the silence after on my watch, second by second.
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  Speaker 1: One minute, two. Gone by twelve past seven, though I
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  Speaker 1: did not know the leaving minute yet, the way you
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  Speaker 1: never know the leaving minute the first time. I got up,
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  Speaker 1: took the notebook, and wrote the only line the night allowed,
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  Speaker 1: standing in pyjamas at the landing window. Chimes. Six letters.
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  Speaker 1: In capitals. In capitals. Not underlined, because first hearings are
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  Speaker 1: not rulings. The tune had played. The page had begun.
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  Speaker 1: The van had not been seen. I stake the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the night from the bedroom window, the way you
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  Speaker 1: stake anything first heard. Eleven. Stairs down and up, counted
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  Speaker 1: in the dark. Cocor made. Unwanted. Regulation. Gerald cleaned and
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  Speaker 1: ready on the sill. Curtains parted two inches, focus pulled
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  Speaker 1: to the curb outside number nine. Nothing. The curb lay
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  Speaker 1: empty under the lamp. No van. No queue. No hatch globe.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever had played had left no more trace than music leaves,
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  Speaker 1: which is none. I sat till half-past one, with the
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  Speaker 1: cocoa going cold, pencil up, ears open, and the lane
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  Speaker 1: never stirred again. At half-past one I stood down and
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  Speaker 1: wrote the second line beneath the first, heard, not seen,
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  Speaker 1: and beneath that, in pencil, the question the night raised,
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  Speaker 1: because first nights raise questions the way saucers raise feathers.
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  Speaker 1: If the chimes play at twelve, what plays them? The
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  Speaker 1: notebook holds the question open. It can afford to. It
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  Speaker 1: has ten questions and room for more. Sunday morning, I
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  Speaker 1: did what the notebook demands before any second night, the
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  Speaker 1: way it demands everything. I checked the clocks. All clock
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  Speaker 1: and church clock both checked against each other, because one
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  Speaker 1: clock is a claim and two clocks are a time.
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  Speaker 1: Both sound. Both true. The chimes had kept twelve on
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  Speaker 1: the dot, and the dot was real. I checked the
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  Speaker 1: kerb outside number nine in daylight, pacing past with my
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  Speaker 1: notebooks shut, the way you pace anything with a brass
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  Speaker 1: number watching. Eleven feet of kerb. Chalk ghosts, half-rubbed, pale
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  Speaker 1: against the stone. Number nine had measured its own kerb
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  Speaker 1: and rubbed the marks out before supper, for reasons nobody understands,
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  Speaker 1: and the ghosts were all that stood. I did not
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  Speaker 1: photograph them. I did not lay fresh chalk of my own.
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  Speaker 1: Some curbs are other watchers' stations, and this curb belongs
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  Speaker 1: to number nine. I paced it, logged it, and left it,
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  Speaker 1: the way you leave anything kept. And while I paced,
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  Speaker 1: I checked the road surface the way you check anything
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  Speaker 1: parked on. No oil spots, no tyre marks fresher than rain,
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  Speaker 1: no flattened leaves where wheels would press. Eleven feet of
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  Speaker 1: curb that holds a van three nights running and shows
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  Speaker 1: nothing by day the way roads keep everything except rounds,
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  Speaker 1: I logged the nothing with the daylight, road, clean, either
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  Speaker 1: the van park's light, the way honest vans park, or
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  Speaker 1: the road forgets by morning, the way lanes forget everything
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  Speaker 1: except trault ghosts. Both notions are held, neither is underlined,
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  Speaker 1: and I wound the alarm for half past eleven that night,
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  Speaker 1: by my own hand. The way alarms get wound for stakeouts.
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  Speaker 1: Then I laid out the stakeout the way you lay
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  Speaker 1: out anything third time before it's second. Cocoa tin out. Unwanted. Regulation.
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  Speaker 1: Gerald cleaned. Lens cloth. Focus. Tested on the lamp. Slippers
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  Speaker 1: by the bed. Dressing gown over the chair. Notebook open
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  Speaker 1: on the sill with the pencil across it. Three stations
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  Speaker 1: named in the margin. Window and porch and gate. With
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  Speaker 1: the hours beside each. because stakeouts want stations, and stations
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  Speaker 1: want names. Night one had been heard, night two would
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  Speaker 1: be watched, but night one had one more entry, because
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  Speaker 1: first nights always do, and this one came at twelve
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  Speaker 1: past twelve, after the music, the way postscripts come. I
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  Speaker 1: had gone down to my gate in slippers, notebook in hand,
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  Speaker 1: pencil up, to look at the empty lane with my
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  Speaker 1: own eyes instead of Gerald's, and Keeper sat on the
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  Speaker 1: step of number seven, in plain view, facing down lane,
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  Speaker 1: green eyes forward, the music cut and gone, the way
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  Speaker 1: evidence sits when it knows it is being decided about.
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  Speaker 1: I cleared my throat, the way you clear anything before rank,
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  Speaker 1: and I called across the lane clearly, once, the way
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  Speaker 1: you call anything that outranks you. Quote, Keeper, end quote.
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  Speaker 1: Keeper did not turn, not all the way. Not halfway,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. Green eyes forward, facing the music, unmoved.
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  Speaker 1: The supporters heard it in full earlier this evening with
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  Speaker 1: the three seconds and the ring round it, because supporters
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  Speaker 1: get the margins. The regulars hear the ruling now. The chimes, held.
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  Speaker 1: Even the landlord. The first unanswered call in six years
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  Speaker 1: of calling. Landlord once, keeper twice, rank, answered three times.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Once, unanswered. Names are forever. Answers are nightly.
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  Speaker 1: The page named, the music kept, keeper, forever. And about
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  Speaker 1: it all, at twelve past six, while the curb stood
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  Speaker 1: empty and the landlord sat silent, Marjorie crossed. I had
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  Speaker 1: gone back to the window with the cold cocoa, the
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  Speaker 1: way you go back to anything unfinished, and there she went,
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  Speaker 1: over the rooftops from the church end, white wings wide,
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  Speaker 1: Silent the way barn owls are silent, crossing the lane
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  Speaker 1: directly above the curb outside number nine. Twelve. Past six.
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  Speaker 1: Timed on my watch. Endantic with the music. I did
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  Speaker 1: not know it was a flyover then, the way you
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  Speaker 1: never know anything the first time. I know it now,
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  Speaker 1: because she flew it twice more, and the notebook has
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  Speaker 1: all three. For now, log it the way I logged it.
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  Speaker 1: One line. Majerari over the Carbea. Because flyovers want three
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  Speaker 1: data points before they are flyovers. And the first point
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  Speaker 1: stood alone for a night, counted, not explained. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the line I am carrying out of this act into
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  Speaker 1: the rain, because the rain needs it. Night one gave
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  Speaker 1: the music its hours, its tune, and its curb. Everything
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  Speaker 1: with hours on this street has a round. The post
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  Speaker 1: has Dave, the bins have Tuesdays, The saucer has midnight,
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  Speaker 1: and the chimes, as of Saturday night, have twelve on
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  Speaker 1: the dot, eight bars and four, and a cut outside
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  Speaker 1: number nine. Played, timed, unseen. The watcher heard, the watcher
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  Speaker 1: did not see. Night two would show him the seeing.
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  Speaker 1: The rain was coming, the plate was waiting, the music
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  Speaker 1: had only begun. Sunday night. The bins were covered. The
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  Speaker 1: string was tied, the chalk sat holding on four wheels,
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  Speaker 1: and the notebook had two pages running at once. Because
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night was bin watch night, as well as chine night,
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  Speaker 1: midnight to half past four, flask full, notebook open, pencil up,
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  Speaker 1: and I sat the curb for the cover, with one
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  Speaker 1: eye on the tarpaulin and one ear on the lane.
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  Speaker 1: The supporters heard every bin entry last night, with the
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  Speaker 1: fox and the wings and the four-second passing, because supporters
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  Speaker 1: get the margins. The regulars hear the chime entries now.
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  Speaker 1: The bin page holds bins. The chime page holds chimes.
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  Speaker 1: That is the arrangement, and the arrangement holds. The rain
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  Speaker 1: started at eleven. Stare-odd rain. The way October rains when
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  Speaker 1: it means it. I sat under the porch roof with
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  Speaker 1: the flask and Gerald. watching the cover darken and the
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  Speaker 1: chalk hold, the way you watch anything doubled. At twelve
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  Speaker 1: on the dot, through the rain, the chimes. Eight full
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  Speaker 1: bars rolling down from the top of the lane Sweet
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  Speaker 1: and slow through shut windows and stair rods both Then
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  Speaker 1: four Softer Outside Number nine Then the cut, mid-phrase Timed
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  Speaker 1: to the same minute as night one Played Shortened Stopped
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  Speaker 1: Two nights Two weathers, one shape. The rain took the
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  Speaker 1: plate and left the music, the way rain takes everything
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  Speaker 1: but rounds. I logged the shape with the time, pencil
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  Speaker 1: going soft in the wet, because shapes are data. And
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  Speaker 1: I raised Gerald to the curb outside number nine, through
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  Speaker 1: the rain, the way you raise anything that matters. And
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  Speaker 1: there it was, the van. Seen whole for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Not heard. Seen. White sides. Boxy. Ordinary in every way
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  Speaker 1: except the hour. The way ordinary things sit when the
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  Speaker 1: hour disagrees with them. No name on the side that
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  Speaker 1: I could read. No price board lit. Only the hatch.
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  Speaker 1: Open on the curbside. Glowing the warm square I would
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  Speaker 1: come to know. Rain hissing round its edges. The way
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  Speaker 1: rain hisses round everything warm. and in the hatch glow,
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  Speaker 1: beaded with rain, lit from above by the serving light.
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  Speaker 1: The plate. The number plate. White on dark, dripping, half-masked
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  Speaker 1: by rain runnels the way plates hide in weather. I
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  Speaker 1: read what I could through Gerald, one eye streaming, the
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  Speaker 1: way you read anything half-masked. A letter first. H. Then
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  Speaker 1: a number. Seven. Then a letter. N. Then rain took
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  Speaker 1: the rest. The way rain takes everything but rounds. H. Seven. N.
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  Speaker 1: Three marks out of seven. Read through stair rods at
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  Speaker 1: forty feet held not ruled. I have entered them with
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  Speaker 1: the weather. Dated. In order. And I have ringed the three.
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  Speaker 1: Because rings are for readings seen whole. The plate exists.
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  Speaker 1: The plate reads partial. The rain keeps the rest. Either
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  Speaker 1: the full plate reads to patients the way all plates read,
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  Speaker 1: or the rain is the plate's curtain, drawn nightly, the
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  Speaker 1: way curtains draw. Both notions are held, neither is underlined.
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  Speaker 1: But a van with a plate is a van with
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  Speaker 1: a registration, and a registration is an address, and addresses
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  Speaker 1: get found. The notebook files plates the way it files everything. Letter, number, Letter. Rain.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: The queue stood in the rain. Three figures at the hatch.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Tallest first. Smallest last. Space the way polite Brits space everything.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Unmoving in stair rods. The way queues stand when the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: serving is worth the standing. No umbrellas. No hoods I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: could see. Only patients. Three deep. Getting wet without shifting.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I sketched them fast on the wet page. Working before
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the details cooled. Three shapes, tallest first, smallest last, spaced.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: The first sketch, the notebook holds it still, rain-wrinkled, dated, ringed.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And at the hatch, glimpsed once through rain and glow,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the serving, something silver passing, something white coming back. Too far,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: too wet, too quick to minute whole, I locked the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: glimpse with. The weather, silver and white. and beneath it,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in pencil, the question the glimpse raised. If the hatch
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: serves in rain, what does it serve? The notebook holds
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the question open. The rain held everything else. At twelve
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: past six, through the rain, above the van, Marjorie crossed.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: White wings, through stair rods, silent the way barn owls
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: are silent, crossing the lane directly above the curb outside
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: number nine. Twelve past six, timed on my watch, rain
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: beading the glass. Second data point, the flyover was forming,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the way flyovers form, one point at a time. I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: logged it with the weather and the plate, because flyovers
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: want witnesses, and the rain was one. Either she flies
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the chimes the way chairman faces them, by post, by arrangement.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Or she hunts the lit curb the way owls hunt
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: everything lit, both notions are held, neither is underlined. But
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: two nights, two crossings, both twelve past six, both over
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the van. The notebook files wings the way it files. Everything. Timed. Dated. Silent.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: By one the rain had eased the why stair rods ease,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: all at once and then nothing. The bin page and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the chime page lay open side by side on my
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: knees the way doubled pages lie, and I minuted both
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: with the same pencil, bins on the left. chimes on
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the reich neither page mentions the other because pages keep
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: their own stations the supporters heard the bin side last
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: night with the winded shift and the still shift and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the ring round 20 to 2 the regulars hear the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: chime sight now same night same curb same watcher doubled
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the van was gone by 12 past 7 hatch dark
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: curb empty the way vans go The queue was gone
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: with it. No footprints I could find at dawn, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: way queues go when the rain takes the prints. I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: sat the bin watch through to half past four, with
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: time page full and the bin page filling, pencil up,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: ears open, and the lane never stirred again. At dawn
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I chubbed the curb outside number nine, pacing past with
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the empty saucer, the way you pace anything after rain. Empty. Wet.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Chalk ghosts pale through puddles. Nothing served leaves no wrapper,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: nothing queued leaves no print. I logged the emptiness with
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the dawn. Played and gone, that is the discipline. But first,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the practical second of the evening. Because even stakeouts run
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: on tea and my flask went dry at the curve
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: in the rain. You know the shape of it by now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and I will keep it short. Two doors wait in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the show notes. The supporter club on Spreeker stands nearest.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Support landing where you already listen. Episodes in the app,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: you know. Patreon holds the further door. Sooner nights and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: longer pages and every show in the stable beyond. For
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the truly committed. Same curb either way. Same rain. Read twice.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Same hue. Streaming at the porch. Done. Practical over. Night
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: three is next. And night three has the cue. Monday night.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: The bins were covered. The string was tied, the chalk
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: sat holding, and the notebook had one page only. Because
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Monday night was no bin watch night, the two watches,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: being Sunday and Monday, midnight to half-past four, done and logged,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and I took station for the van alone. Alarm wound
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: for half-past eleven, by my own hand, dressing gown over pyjamas,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: cocoa made, unwanted, regulation, notebook open, pencil up, and at
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: five to twelve I went down to my gate in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: slippers and stood there, the way you stand for anything
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: third time, still, ears open, pencil ready, no porch roof,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: no bin cover. No second page, one watcher, one gate,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: one van, due. The lane lay dry and still, the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: lap burned outside number nine, the curb waited, eleven feet
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of watched stone, the way curbs wait when rounds are due. Twelve,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: On the dot, music. Eight full bars rolling down from
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the top of the lane, sweet and slow through the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: still air. Then four, softer, outside number nine. Then the cut, mid-phrase,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: timed to the same minute as nights one and two. Played, shortened, stopped.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Three nights, two weathers, one shape. Dry, rain, dry. Same tune, slower,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the margin says. I log to shape with the time,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: standing at my own gate. Because shapes are data, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I raise Gerald to the curb. Forty feet off. Clear air, lamplight,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and hatchlight both. The way you raise anything that matters.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: And there they stood. The queue. Seen close for the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: first time. Three figures. Tallest first. Smallest last. Spaced the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: way polite Brits space everything. The tall one first, because
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: tall ones go first. Long coat. Still shoulders. Standing square
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to the hatch the way customers stand, facing the warm square. Unmoving.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I could not see the face the way you never
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: see faces at 40 feet in lamplight, and I am
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: glad of it, because faces are identifications, and identifications are
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: for daylight. Only the height. Only the coat. Only the patience.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: The tall one stepped to the hatch at twelve past
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: one by my watch, and something silver passed from hand
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to hatch, glinting once in the warm square, the way
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: coins glint, and something white came back, small and swirled,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: held the way cones are held, one silver, one white,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: no change seen coming back. I lod the serving with
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the time first served, and beneath it, in pencil, the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: question the serving raised. If the tall one pays silver,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: what does silver buy at midnight? The notebook holds the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: question open. The hatch held everything else. The middle one next.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Shorter by a head. A bag over one shoulder, the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: way shoppers carry bags, square and dark against the coat.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: The middle one stepped up at twelve past two, unhurried
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the way queues move, and silver passed again. Ginting once,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and white came back again. Small and swirled, held the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: same way. One silver, one white. No change coming back. Two,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: so heard. Two paid. I sketched them fast on the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: dry page, working before the details cooled. Three shapes, tallest first,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: smallest last, spaced. The second sketch. The notebook holds it still,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: dry and dated. Rinned. and I wrote the count beneath it,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: because counts are rulings that arrive early. Two. Then I
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: lowered Gerald, gently, the way you rest anything heavy, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I watched the small ones step up with my own eyes,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: because some servings want witnessing whole, the small one last,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: because small ones go last, child height, still as the others.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: standing on tiptoe on the cold curb to reach the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: hatch the way small ones reach, one hand up, steady, unhurried.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I will tell you what I felt, because the notebook
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: takes testimony from the watcher too. Concern. A small one
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: out at midnight, three nights, or one small one thrice,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: queuing in October, air for something white. I held the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: concern the way you hold anything felt, pencil up, ruler down,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Either the small one is small the way small grown
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: people are small, and my concern is mine to file.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Or the small one is young, and the young are
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: walked home, and the notebook watched the walking. Silver passed,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: white came back. One silver, one white. No change coming back.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Three served, three paid. I logged the serving with the time.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Third served. A word on the server, because servings have servers,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and this one stayed unseen. No face in the hatch,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: no voice carried forty feet, only a hand in the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: warm square taking the silver, giving the white, the way
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: hands serve. Sliv dark, movements quick, three takings, three givings,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: never hurried, never slow. Either the server stands back from
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the light the way Glover stands back from the glass,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: or the hatch shows hands the way tills show hands,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and the rest is the van's business. Both notions are held,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: neither is underlined. And I watched all three go, the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: way you watch anything served, down the lane, past the lamp,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: into the dark between number nine and the corner, together, unhurried, gone,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: by twelve past seven, the way vans go, the way
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: queues go, leaving nothing behind but lamplight and curb. And
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: behind the small one, at the rear of the line
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: where Mr. Pettifer's pencil put a fourth shape on my
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: sketch without asking, stood nothing, no fourth, no shape, only
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: lamplight and curb, and the dark holding the place where
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a fourth would stand. I watched the rear through Gerald
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: for a full minute, the way you watch anything supplied.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Nothing stepped in, Nothing stepped out. The line served three
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and closed at three, the way honest queues close. I
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: logged the nothing with the time. Rear, empty. Three witnessed.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: One supplied. Zero standing. Either the fourth shape stands some
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: nights and not others, the way customers vary, or the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: fourth shape stands where I cannot witness, the way supplied
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: shapes stand, or the rear is held for someone, The
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: way seats are held, and the holding is the shape.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: All three are held, none is underlined. But three nights,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: three queues, three threes. The notebook files rears the way
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: it files everything. Tallest first, smallest last, fourth nowhere. At
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: twelve past six, above the queue, above the hatchlight, above
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: it all, Marjorie crossed. White wings wide. Silent the way
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: barn owls are silent. Crossing the lane directly above the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: curve outside number nine. Twelve past six. Timed on my watch.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Third data point. The flyover stood complete. The way flyovers stand.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Three points. Three midnights. All twelve past six. All over
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the van. Dry. Rain. Dry. Heard nights and seen nights alike.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I lobbed it with the cue and the payment. because
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: flyovers weren't completing and the queue was one, flyover complete.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Three midnight's, one line across the sky. Either she flies
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the music the way she flies everything and the van
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: sits under her beat, or she witnesses the queue the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: way I witness it and the notebook is not the
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: only minutes. Both notions are held, neither is underlined, but
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the benchmark flew over the evidence three nights running and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the evidence never looked up. The notebook files that the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: way it files everything. Timed. Dated. Ringed. Here is what
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Knight 3 gave the page. Because Knight 3 is the page.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Three figures, served in order. Three silvers, passed hand to hatch.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Three whites, small and swirled, carried into the dark. No change, seen.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Three times, no fourth, three times. No names, ever. I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: came inside at half past twelve with the cocoa drunk cold,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: standing order suspended, and I sat at the desk with
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the two sketches side by side and the three servings
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: beneath them. And I wrote the only ruling the stakeout allowed,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in pencil, because pencil is for nights like that. Served three,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: paid three. And beneath it, also in pencil, the question
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the stakeout raised, because stakeouts raise questions the way saucers
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: raise feathers. Who buys at midnight and what does silver buy?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: The notebook holds the question open. The customers hold everything else.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: A watcher who only watches alone is only half a watcher.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: The other half is testimony. So on Wednesday, I did
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: what I always do when the notebook gets too full
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: of my own looking. I asked the street. 3. Witnesses
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and a logbook. 4. Statements. All taken in daylight. All voluntary. 5.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: None of them simple. Witness 1. Mrs Glover threw six
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: inches of open window the way all Mrs Glover statements come.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday she closed the window six inches
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to none when I asked her who buys at midnight,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the way answers close when evenings own them. On Wednesday
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the window stood open again, six inches, the way windows
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: stand when evenings have come. I asked her what she
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: has on the queue. She turned pages I could hear
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: but not see, and she read me a third entry.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Fresh ink, the way fresh entries come. Quote, three stood
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: at the hatch, and three paid. End quote. Three stood.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Three paid. My three, her three. Two watches, two windows,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: one queue. I asked her whether she saw the serving.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Pages turned, curtain considered. And she said, quote, silver in,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: White out, hue, end quote. Silver in, white out. Six words,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: my glimpse exactly, from behind curtains at whatever hour Mrs
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Glover sees things. I have underlined the entry once, in pen,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: because pen is for testimony that corroborates. Three entries now,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: one week. The chimes played, the curb was chalked and rubbed,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: three stood and three paid. The street is not describing music.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It is describing custom. Witness two. Mrs. Alder, over the fence,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. Unprompted first, the way the best lines always come.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I told her about the three served. She looked at
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the lane, the fence, and me, in that order, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: she said, quote, Q's keep their own counsel, Hugh, end quote.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Q's keep their own counsel. I asked her what she meant.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: She considered the question the way she considers everything, completely
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and without blinking, and she said, quote, served is served,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: end quote, served is served. I wrote it down word
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: for word. I have ringed it because rings are for
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: sentences that turn out to be evidence. And I have
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: added a notion beneath it that I am still turning over.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Perhaps customers are served the way rounds are served and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the serving is the whole of it. Perhaps the lane
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: has customers the way shops have customers. and the customers
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: keep counsel the way queues do. Both notions are held,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: neither is underlined. But two lines, one fence, one Wednesday.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Queues keep counsel, served is served, the notebook files fences
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the way it files everything. Heard, dated, ringed, witness three.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Mr Fenwick, over his gate, Wednesday afternoon, beans done for
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the year, soil on his hands. I asked him what
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: he makes of a midnight queue, three deep outside number nine.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: He leaned on his gate and considered the lane the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: way he considers beans. And he said, quote, not my row,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: end quote. Not my row. I asked him whether he
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: had ever queued at midnight himself. He said, quote, queues
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: are for daylight, end quote. and went back to his soil.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Cues are for daylight. I wrote it down with the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: time and the soil. Either Fenwick cues dayside the way
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Dave does dayside, one round, one attention, nothing spare. Or
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: the beans taught him what the notebook is still learning,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that some rows are not his, and midnight cues are
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: one of them. Both notions are held, neither is underlined.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: But the growers have spoken the way growers speak, not
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the row, daylight only, The notebook files rose the way
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: it files everything. Pencil. Dated. Held. Witness 4 is not
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: a witness. It is a step, checked at dawn and dusk,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the way all step statements come. Wednesday morning. The second
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: 50 pence piece went down in daylight, in front of me,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: dated by witness, the way funded experiments continue. 50 pence.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Winking on the stone. Same step. Same gate. Same hour.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: And at dusk on Wednesday, walking past on Saucer Check,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: the way you check anything prepared, there it sat, winking, held, untaken,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: one wink and counting. The experiment continues, funded, either the
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: street takes when it suits, the way drinkers drink when
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: it suits, or the second coin waits its taking, the
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: way queues wait their serving, both notions are held, Neither
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: is underlined. But one dawn, one dusk, one wink. The
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: notebook counts, change the way. It counts everything. Prepared steps. Waiting. Coins.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: No petals yet. So that is the street, a queue
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of three, corroborated through curtains. A council of queues, pronounced
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: over a fence. A row declined, pronounced over a gate.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: And a step still winking at dusk. and 300 miles north,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Dee heard music. For three nights and never saw the van,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: only the glow, gone, by the time he reached his gate.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I saw the van Dee never saw. Dee heard the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: chimes I heard. His street remembers. Mine parks. The hearing
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: and the parking are the same post, delivered two ways.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I have written that on the Durham page twice now,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: once in answer and once in evidence. because answers that
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: become evidence get written twice. Four witnesses and a step,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and every one of them pointing the same way. The
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: van does not come for the street, it comes for customers.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Queued for, paid for, served at midnight, counted, not explained.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And here is the notion I am carrying out of
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: this act into the features, because the features need it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: If the van serves customers the way the post serves houses...
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: with rounds and hours and exact change, then the coins
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: on Mrs. Gulliver's step are not the only till I
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: found this week. The hatch is a till too. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: something has been serving three deep for three nights. A
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: word on method before the features, because the stakeout has
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: rules and the rules are the ears. Rule one, hall
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: clock and church clock both, checked against each other. Because
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: one clock is a claim and two clocks are a time.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Rule two, Bars counted on fingers under the sill because
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: pencils scratch and scratching carries. Rule 3. Never tap along
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: because tapping joins in and joining in is participation and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: watching might be participation already without percussion. Rule 4. Never
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: cue because cueing joins in and joining in is participation
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and the watcher watches the cue the way the cue
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: watches the hutch. 4. Rules. Three nights. Nine notes. And
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: here's the line I'm carrying out of this act into
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the features, because the features need it twice. The stakeout
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: is walked, the queue is minuted, the payment is witnessed.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: What remains is the reading of the pages, the way
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: readings remain. The notebook is next, the lals are after.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: The page is nearly turned. Features time. And tonight, the
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: notebook comes first. Because the stakeout pages deserve to be
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: read aloud in full, the way evidence deserves daylight. From
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: my notebook. Two pages. Written across three midnights. Abbreviations expanded
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: for the listeners. Page one. Headed. The stakeout. Night one. Saturday.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Heard not. Seen. Twelve on the dot. Eight and four
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and cut. Window station. Gate at twelve past twelve. Keeper unanswered. Marjorie.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Over the curb. Night two. Sunday. Bin. Watch. Doubled. Rain.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Stair rods. Van. Seen. Hole. White sides. Hatch lit. Plate. Partial. H.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Seven N. Q. Sketched first. Silver and white. Glimpsed. Marjorie. Second. Crossing.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Night three, Monday, gate alone, dry and still. Queue seen close, tall, middle, small.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Three silvers, three whites, no change back. Rear empty. Marjorie
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: third crossing, flyover complete. Leaving minute, twelve past seven, all
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: three nights. Ruling, pencil. Served three, paid three. That is
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: page one. Three nights, two weathers. On shape, and a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: margin note at the bottom added this morning. In pencil.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Because pencil is for notes, too big for pen. The
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: stakeout is walked. The queue is minuted. See page two.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Page two. Headed by queue. Sketches. Two. First rain-wrinkled, second dry-bore,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: three shapes. Tallest first, smallest last. Spaced. Tall one. Long coat.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Still shoulders. First up. Twelve past one. Silver past. White
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: came back. No face seen. Glad of it. Middle one. Shorter.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: By a head. Bag over shoulder. Second up. Twelve past two.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Silver past. White came back. Small one. Child height. Tiptoe
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: at the hatch. Third up. Silver past. White came back.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Concern filed. Walking watched. Rear. Empty. Three knights. Pettifer's fourth supplied.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Zero standing. Glover. Three stood and three paid. Silver in whiteout. Alder.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Queues keep counsel. Served is served. Fenwick. Not my row
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: daylight only. Gallador step. Second coin down. Wednesday winking at dusk. Ruling. Pencil.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Queued for. Paid for. Count. Three figures. Three silvers. Three whites.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: No change. That is page two. One queue. Three servings.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: One gap. And a margin note matching page one. Same pencil.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Same morning. The hatch and the step are not two mysteries.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: They are two tills, mind the queue. A word on
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the saucer before the owls, because the saucer rotor has news,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and the news is the ledger. Three more nights have
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: passed since the last tables. The supporters heard every dawn
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: earlier this evening, with the plain night and the halved
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: night and the eleventh alder line, because supporters get the margins.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: The regulars hear the ledger now. Night seven. Dry. Milk gone.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: No feather. Dead on the chalk. Alder. Unprompted. Thirsty. Night eight. Frost.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Milt half gone, to a clean line halfway down. No feather.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: dead on the chalk, older, unprompted, half a bill, half
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the milk, half the price, night nine, dry, milk gone,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: fourth grey feather, laid across like a spoon, the twin
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: of the twins of the twin, older, unprompted, four and counting, ruling, pencil, standing,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: The drinker drinks when it suits. Four feathers, two movements,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: two untouched, one half. And one rule debated and rejected
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: three times now which I record because rejected rules are
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: data too. The second saucer, set ten feet west, debated
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: after night five, rejected, debated after night seven, rejected. Debated
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: after the half, rejected. One station, one saucer, The way
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Bistit keeps one timetable, and Dave keeps one round. You
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: do not build a second bus stop to test the timetable.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: The second saucer stays in the cupboard. The notebook records
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: all three debates and all three rejections together, because method
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: refused three times is still method. Milk out, feathers back,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: silver in, white out. The saucer and the hatch are
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: not two mysteries, They are two stations, and stations serve rounds,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and rounds have customers. And the customers, regulars, pay in
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: feathers and exact change. Mind the step, mind the saucer,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: mind the wall, mind the bins, mind the chimes. All
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: of it is kept, a word on keeper before the owls,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: because rank was tested, and the test stand. Three trine nights,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: dusk to midnight, keeper sat the step of number seven
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: facing down lane toward number nine toward the music three
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: hours before the music started the supporters heard every sitting
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: earlier this evening with the hours and the facing and
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the lorry postscript because supporters get the margins the regulars
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: hear the ruling now the cat listens sat the lids
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: on bin night sat the step on chime nights listening
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: is not visiting listening is standing post where the round
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: needs ears And the call stands unanswered. Twelve past twelve.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Night one. Green eyes forward. The way rank declines. Three.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Answers hold the name. One. Silence does not unhold it.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Names are forever. Answers are nightly. The page named. The
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: music kept. Keeper. Forever. The notebook adds a line to
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the job description every week. And the job description has
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: no bottom yet. Mind the step. Mind the listening. All
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: of it is kept, all of it is heard. And now,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Owl of the Week, regular show edition. And I will
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: give the ceremony its full honours, because this week the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: birds worked through music, and the music moved every one
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: of them. The rules, for the new listeners. One owl,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: finest of the past seven days, full reasoning, no favouritism.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Marjorie present in every comparison, the way she is present
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: in every night. The shortlist this week. Biscuit. The little
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: brown owl of number seven. Digestive brown. Keeper of the timetable.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: For seven nights out of seven, all ten past three,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: all three rocks. Every landing. Never two, never four. No
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: early night. No excuse needed. The first perfect week since
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the timetable began, logged and witnessed. The timetable was magnificent,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: the week was perfect. And still, somehow, not the finest
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: thing on the street this week, because Chime Week belonged
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: to Wings, chairman of the Belfry, the tawny for the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: high post. For the turn, three midnights, timed from my
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: landing window church corner to down lane and back with
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the music, the turn was magnificent. The music was faced.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: But the birds do not win twice in one week
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: across either edition, by the newest ancient rule made up
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: last Tuesday, witnessed by the notebook, seconded by the pencil,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and the chairman took the premium edition earlier this evening.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: The rule is the rule, the grey one. Also for
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: floating between beats the way it floats, unroasted, unafraid, the
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: only bird on the lane with no station and no hours.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Resting this week the way winners rest, carrying nothing, proving nothing,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: prusent the way it is present, briefly considered, briefly set aside,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: resting is not keeping, and this week belonged to keeping.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And Marjorie, Marjorie the barn owl, 41 visits and counting,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the feather on the doorstep, the benchmark against which all
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: strangeness is measured, present in every comparison, the way she
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: is present in every night, the way she will be
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: present in every ceremony until this show ends, Four. Cantatats.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: No easy choice. Biscuit had the timetable, perfect at last.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Chairman had the height, and the turn, and the rule
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: against it. The grey one had the rest, and the float,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: and the week off. And Marjorie had the history, and
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: the feather, and three mignights above the van. But the award,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: this week, goes to the bird that flew over the music.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Marjorie the Barn Owl, Owl of the Week, regular edition,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: with full honours, for the flyover. For three midnights, timed
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: and minuted, twelve past six, dry and rain and dry,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: crossing the lane above the kerb, outside number nine, while
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: the queue stood below. For witnessing the serving from the
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: only seat higher than mine, unhurried, unbowed, Silent the way
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: benchmarks stay silent. May its wings be white and its
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: crossings be timed. And Biscuit, wherever you are roosting tonight,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: you remain the keeper of the timetable. And the timetable
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: remains the finest thing on this street, and a perfect
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: week is a perfect week whatever the ceremony says. Even
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Marjorie knows it. She flew over the van and landed
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: nowhere near the round. That is the highest praise this
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: notebook can pay. And chairman, wherever you are perched tonight,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: you remain the high post. And the high post remains
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: the finest seat on this street. Even the music knows it.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: It played, and you faced it, and the facing stands.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Count the weeks, log the months. Marjorie outlasts them all.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: No new post before we close, because the ledger holds
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: at eight, and the post runs both ways on its
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: own schedule. Dee sits up his fourth night tonight in Durham,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: midnight to half past two, the way the record advises,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: ring chalked and dated, round whenever Coyne stands ready. If
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the music plays a fourth time, Durham will know the
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: street has posted back. If the fourth night rests, Durham
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: will know its curb keeps been nights too. Either way,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: the ledger waits, the way ledgers wait. Eight watchers. Eight cities.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Our and T and M and S and E and
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: J and N and D. And if any of you
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: ever meet, and I have a feeling you might, tell
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: each other, Hugh says hello. The watchers are finding each other.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: It was only a matter of time. So here we are,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: at the end of our sixth evening together, and I
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: want to tell you what the van has taught me,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: because it completes a set of seven, and sets matter
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: to men with notebooks. The owls taught me that the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: street keeps secrets until I am ready. The house taught
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: me that watching might be participation, that some things stand
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: because someone stands looking. Number seven taught me that the
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: watched were never worried. that while I crept about with
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: binoculars and logs, the family had already decided I was
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: the minutes. The margins taught me that the watch read back,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: that six years of reports went into a correspondence and
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: not a draw. The page taught me to write as
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: if read. Every line, every ruling, every quote set apart.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: The bins taught me to put out properly, because the
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: street notices. Out as put, back as due. And the
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: van has taught me the seventh lesson. The one I
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: will carry the longest. And it is this. Stand in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: the queue properly. The street notices. Queued for. Chined for.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Served at midnight. The customers got cones. The watchers got minutes.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Nobody pushed. Nobody named names. Three stood. And three paid.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: And the rear stood empty. And the music covered all
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: of it. I came to Bramble Lane to watch. I
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: appear to be filed. Every street should have minutes. Ours
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: has me, and now the minutes have chimes, and I
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: have never minuted mine with greater care. Before I go,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: the usual three things, plus a fourth, because the van
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: earned it. First, thank you. For tonight, for last night.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: For the messages. For R in Leeds and T in
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Bristol and M in Manchester and S in Sheffield and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: E in Exeter and J in York and N in
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Norwich and D in Durham. For every listener who has
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: checked their own streets since this show began and found it,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: I hope, slightly less ordinary than before. Do subscribe so
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: tomorrow finds you and do share us with the nosiest
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: person you know. Second, Our sister shows, for the hours
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: between nine and nine, time to relax, for slower evenings
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: and softer landings, and your quiet moment, for the stillness
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I never manage. Siblings, waiting patiently, the way siblings wait. Third,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the practical, last time tonight, brief as ever. And I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: mean brief, because the night is late and the queue
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: is long. If tonight was worth your Wednesday, the show
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: notes hold the links that keep it standing. The supporter
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: club on Spreaker is the short road, no further than
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: where you listen. Patreon for first nights and more midnights
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: like this one. Queues and all, across every show in
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: the stable. Same street, same keeper keeping the queue. Same hue,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: queued and filed. Done. Practical over. The rotor holds. Fourth.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: The open questions page. Updated. Because the page moves whether
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the van plays or not. Question one. Who lives at
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: number nine? Status advanced. The van parks outside, nine three
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: nights running, twelmed on the dot, eight bars and four
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: and cut. The curb measured eleven feet, chalk to chalk,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: ghosts half. Rupt. Eleven. Owls. Seventeen callers. One brass number.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Zero answers, and one banana bread, eaten standing up, entered
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: as evidence. Keeper faces number nine from the step on
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Chime Nights, the way Keeper faces it from the allotment
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: corner on Rounds. Then's wheels turn square in Norwich, and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the notebook wonders, idly, the way notebooks wonder, whether the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: bins at number nine go out at all. Still open.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Question two. Who runs the post, the beats, the rota,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: the weekends, the walls, the bins, and now, perhaps, the chimes.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Status expanded again. The nine notes sit beside it now,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: no name, older than the vans. Three figures at the hatch,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: queued orderly, silver, past. No change seen. D's sentence about
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the visiting is entered beneath it. But who holds the rota?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Who plays the music? Who buys at midnight? Who keeps
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: the steps? Still open. Still the biggest question on the page.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Question three. What do the letters say? Status unchanged and maddening.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Not one word read. Not one envelope opened. The promise stands.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Before this show is done, I will read an owl
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: letter with my own eyes, or I will find out
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: exactly why I cannot. Question four. Who else is watching K?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Answered in full and still growing. The reader with a pencil,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: quiet through chime week. D in Durham, formally entered this week.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Eighth watcher, eighth city. N in Norwich, chalking still. J's
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: giving way in York, filed beneath it. The dogs, silent
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: through owl hours. 41, pigeons in a ring. The milkman,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: watching bottles. And Keeper, facing the music formally logged this
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: week which brings the list up to date. And the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: date is tonight. E's sentence, about waiting, sits beneath this
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: question still. Perhaps the watching is the whole of it.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the listening is half of it. The notebook holds
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: both notions. It can afford to... It has ten questions
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: and room for more. Question five. What is coming? Closer,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: I reckon. Closer every night. The flash is broke. The
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: curtain moved. The saucer came back empty. The milk went
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: untouched and dry. The book came open. The bin came
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: heavy and opened. The chimes played three nights and rested
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the fourth. The tune played. Long nights ahead. Question six.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: What is Bramble House? Waiting. Not where. Not when. What?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: First data point in. Something drinks milk something with table
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: manners the bin opened and is not claimed leaves are
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: leaves filed not feared second data point pending the way
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: all bramble house data is pending question seven retired gone
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: cleaned feather across the first question on this page to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: close and it stays closed question eight WHO drank the milk.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: And what does the grey feather mean? Status advanced. Nine
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: nights logged. Four feathers. Twin barred. Laid across like spoons.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Two movements. East half and west quarter. No prints. Two
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: untouched nights. One rain. One dry. One half. Frost rimmed. Mrs.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Alder testifying in elevens. The drinker drinks when it suits.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: And the notebook has ruled it. In pencil, because pencil
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: is for drinkers. But who drinks? And why feathers? And
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: why halves? Still open. The saucer goes back down tonight. Refilled.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Same wall. Same milk. Same hour. Milk down at midnight.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Check at dawn. The rotor holds. Watch this space. Watch
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: the meek. Question nine. How long has the notebook been read?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Status quiet. Two mornings closed as left. Pencil across. No
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: new marks. If the reading started Sunday, the correspondence is
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: a week old. If it started earlier, every ruling I
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: have underlined was read before I underlined it. The pencil
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: is sharpened. The margins are watched. The question stands. Question 10.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: WHO filled the bin. And... What does the fifth cross mark? Status, quiet.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: The bins went out light and came back rinsed, lifted
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: by the lorry Wednesday morning. The chalk washed out in
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: the night rain. The string sits coiled in the shed.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Eleven bundles filed. One station chalked. If the street files leaves,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the accounts are bigger than milk. If the street chalk stations,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the audit has chalk as well as pencil, the chalk
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: is washed, the station is watched, the question stands, and
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: new tonight. Question 11. Written in capitals with the date,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: WHO buys at midnight, and what does silver buy? Not whether, who,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: and what. Three figures served in order. Three silvers passed
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: hand to hatch. No change seen three times, no fourth,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: three times. If the hatch serves three, the customers are counted.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: If the rear stands empty, the holding is the shape,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: the queue is minuted, the till is watched, the question stands.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: And now, the reason you must come back tomorrow. Because tonight,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: at twelve on the dot, the round resumes. Three on,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: one off. The rotor breathes the way weeks breathe. and
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: I have wound the alarm for half past eleven, and
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: the cocoa stands ready, unwanted. Regulation. Tomorrow, I will walk
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: the resumed music, chime by chime, the way stakeouts deserve.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Night five. The played gerb. The hatch, lit again, and
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: there is something else besides, something at the gate with
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: the shut buds, where the curtain keeps lifting half an
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: inch and settling without a face. I am saying no more.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: The music waits for its evening. Tomorrow, it plays. Sleep well.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Keep one eye on your own street and the other
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: on the midnight curb. And Hugh will see you at nine.