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Jun. 1st, 2018

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Most days this past week I've had a four year-old to assist me in feeding the birds but this morning I didn't- which makes me sad. We kept the paddling pool full all week but the weather has been such that after the first indulgence we never used it again. I've taken the cover off and removed the plug and once it's empty I'll deflate it.

The toy box is in the living room and needs to be dragged back to the place it usually occupies under the stairs.

We have acquired two water pistols, some weighted sticks with penguin heads that you drop to the bottom of a swimming pool for a child to retrieve- which have no function in a paddling pool except to amuse- and a litter of sea shells and small pebbles from Winchelsea Beach.
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Not exactly a love story, because one of the parties may be incapable of love, but certainly a story of obsession- of two people who can't leave one another alone.

Thorpe is an enigma, an actor, a counterfeiter. We see him moralising thunderously in the House of Commons and moments afterwards plotting a murder. We see him- with tears and breaking voice- mourning the death of his first wife in front of his parliamentary colleagues and then- turning on a sixpence- picking up the threads of his murder plot. Is there a centre to the man? Is the warmth he can project ever genuine? Is he an affectless killer or is that also an act? When we see him on his own- and apparently expressing emotion- are we glimpsing a private individual or is he still performing to an audience of one?

Norman Scott is Thorpe's opposite- a man of inconvenient feeling- dangerously authentic, compulsively truthful- a man who can't keep his emotion in check- who explodes with it volcanically- and sometimes to the hurt of those around him. He too is a killer- however inadvertently- triggering a girlfriend's suicide with an untimely and inappropriate declaration of his love for Thorpe- and equally self-centred.

The man who is unknowable and the man who is all too knowable: Both of them attractive. Both of them bad news.

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