38 unnumbered chapters (mostly days of week, over about 6 weeks)
characters: 824,360
words: 151,950
'To Peter Ady' [wiki]
(yes, Peter) |
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Peter Pan |
📅 Hilary Burde, 41yo lives in Bayswater rental
👳Christopher Jameson Cather, 23yo, beautiful druggie cleaner
Treason of the Clerks, his old band
Mick Ladderslow
🕺 Jimbo Davis, Welsh ballet dancer
👧 Alexandra 'Biscuit' Bissett
🍸 Mr Pellow, alcoholic neighbor
👵Laura Impiatt, women's page journalist
👴Freddie Impiatt, Etonian? lisps
Queen's Gate Terrace, Impiatts' house
🎓 Clifford Larr, Freddie's boss
Arthur Fisch, Crysta's swain, Hilary's underling
🤡 Reggie Farbottom, the office comic
👰Thomasina Forbes Uhlmeister (Tommy)
Mr Osmand, Hilary's kind teacher
💂Gunnar Jopling
👸Lady Katharine Mallow Jopling (Lady Kitty)
Kim Spranger
Jenny Searle [real, one of IM’s research students]
November
Q01: THURSDAY 👳📅📞💢
treason of the clerks [wiki]
The Sibyl’s leaves = the Cumaean Sibyl, a prophetess in ancient Rome who wrote her warnings on the leaves of oak trees [cite]
pound floated 1971
Q02: BEFORE describing the events
Q03: FRIDAY
Q04: SATURDAY
November
Q05: MONDAY
Q06: TUESDAY
electrical strike = 1973 [cite]
Q07: WEDNESDAY
Q08: THURSDAY
Q09: I walked very fast
Q10: FRIDAY
Q11: I will now tell
Q12: SATURDAY
Q13: MONDAY
Q14: TUESDAY
Q15: WEDNESDAY
Q16: THURSDAY
Q17: FRIDAY
Q18: SATURDAY
Q19: MONDAY
Q20: TUESDAY
Q21: WEDNESDAY
Q22: THURSDAY
Q23: FRIDAY
Q24: SATURDAY
Q25: SUNDAY
Q26: MONDAY
Q27: TUESDAY
Q28: WEDNESDAY
Q29: THURSDAY
Q30: It was Thursday
Q31: FRIDAY
Q32: SATURDAY
Q33: SUNDAY
Q34: MONDAY
Q35: TUESDAY
Q36: It was later
Q37: CHRISTMAS EVE
Q38: CHRISTMAS DAY