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• » 3:AM in Lockdown 17: Toby Litt

  By Toby Litt.     Just about the worst thing for a writer is to believe that someone else has written the thing you want to write. Worse than this, though, is the belief that another, better writer is — right now, at this very moment, somewhere in the world — writing the only thing […]

• » 3:AM in Lockdown 16: Joe Milutis

  Music for Doing Nothing By Joe Milutis.     A few days ago, Italian film composer Ennio Morricone announced that he would not be composing or playing music during quarantine; the absolute value of music was to him meaningless during such a serious crisis and that he felt that Italians who sang on their balconies, […]

• » 3:AM in Lockdown 15: David Collard

  Another Leap in the Dark By David Collard.   A lifetime ago, on 29th February, I organised a ‘A Leap in the Dark’, a Dada cabaret staged in a dilapidated former Conservative Club in Paddington. The venue was unheated but there was plenty of whisky and cocoa and the performers all blazed with a hard […]

• » 3:AM in Lockdown 14: Tom Bradley

  China Viruses By Tom Bradley. I stumbled around in China in the mid- to late-eighties, right around the time America’s beloved president was joining the Republican Party. This was during the height of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, which the natives called “British Bull Disease”. AIDS was just beginning to scare the Celestials of the Flowery Middle […]

• » 3:AM in Lockdown 13: Matthew Turner

  Fresco By Matthew Turner.       I prefer not to. Instead, I would rather think about the normality, not the difference. I would rather imagine a vast fresco painted on the walls of a small cell, depicting spaces of enormous enclosure. There would be a cloudless sky, a blurred horizon. There would be innumerable […]

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