James Frey -

Arrive at beginning of book all the events are behind him. Nothing in white halls to distract him from it.

Exists in eternal present tense, every five seconds could lose the ground he's gained.

Like being born.

File with Borstal Boy, The Bell Jar and A Scanner Darkly.

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Radio Four short story every evening this week at 11.30.
Marlborough star of The Flyover, gets bricked up.
Irish man Prody returns to village and blackmails Priest for something he didn't do.
Homeless man keeps being stopped by strangers who know his name, tell him to go home to his wife. He stops in shopfront and sees his name and age on his t-shirt. At a safe house he is led into a room with thousands of men in the same t-shirts saying 'Missing since ...'. He climbs up a ladder to get to his bed on the sixth bunk up. He is scared. A nurse says 'this is a safehouse. In the morning he looks down and sees a splash of urine at the foot of the ladder. He waves to see which one of the reflected faces peering over the bunk is his. Six hands wave back.

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Want to do Tai Chi with Carrie in October. Offered work in June from Bath Academy. Want to concentrate on hotel poems, and submit to competition.