This page gives an entry point into the various things that Gilbert hid away - there are emails and there are notes. The dates of their composition or publication are prepended to the titles.
Since this place is where I hide stuff I thought it best to at least organise it so that I can find out what's here. Also - this way people I send here or people who follow things to arrive here can go straight to the relevant section or category.
Disclaimer: I said above that I had made this decision but that isn't strictly true: I was forced into ths structural amendment by legal pressure (I needed to keep the structural damage policy in force). The actual impetus and original idea belongs to JR Associates - Consulting Textual and Narrative Structural Engineers 2006.
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Comments:
1. HiPhiiPhi said:
May 29, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Look around you. Do you really think this is ALL an accident? Our paths have crossed for a reason. Sometimes we walk a ways with someone, when the path divides, we part company with them. Occassionally the paths merge againÉ HiPhi
2. HiPhiiPhi said:
May 29, 2006 at 4:55 pm
I know that might sound like a load of Gippog! ;)
3. Dick D said:
June 17, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Did you really think it would be that easy? That you could discard me without a qualm? Ignore him and he'll go away? You know better than that. I can, you know now, hack your notebook. Heck, I can hack your conscious and unconscious mind now. Laz lets me - we have an agreement he and I. Read about it next time you visit - it's on the desk waiting for you - a very inventive episode if you ask me which you won't but I'll tell you anyway. It's payback time. I'm writing you as well as him - let's see how you like it. Did you think I didn't know about your "clandestine" irruptions onto our side of the membrane. I know you though HE couldn't see you, I read your stuff of course, didn't know you were there - LMSO (laughing my socks off). We are sensitive - we fictives. Next time look past the typewriter, it doesn't hold all of the secrets you know. There's a mirror on the wall opposite his work station. And all those dark corners and shadowy recesses? Where do you think we, the characters, hang out? You've sure given us some laughs I'll tell you. And now with me writing you and Laz writing you it is all going to get much more interactive - hold onto your hat boy. We just do interactive text so much better on our side of the membrane - maybe it's because we all started out as fictives - yes ALL of us. And you and your lot - the so called real people - well be honest you're all pretty crap at it aren't you? Talk the talk but don't write the text. How many of the people you've tried to inveigle into your efforts have come thru? One? Two? Even your Swedish pal has given up on you now - what was it he said? "It was beginning to feel like an obligation?" Oh yeah I read his stuff too - I am text remember. You give him the chance, and that Jill person, to become actors and authors and what happens? Zip - that's what. The theory may be nice to study but the actual doing of it is just too hard isn't it? Well that's how it looks from here. Only the bekilted Zen master has really helped out and be fair you are struggling now aren't you? But there are legion of us. It all abubble on our side. So much so that we're all coming over here and messing. "You are a very lucky man Dave!" Sound familiar? Yeah I'll bet it does - and so it should. Just a placeholder you know - but it is rather funny in a kind of schoolboy way. And while we're at it check out the undersides of the tortoiseshell boxes next time you come visit. ... No - I'll save you the trouble - one is blank and the other says "OMNIUM" - so go figure, or as we used to say when we were younger, pick the bones out of that one maestro. Well I think I'll make that do for now but watch out for me I'll be back and next time - who knows - I might bring company. You seem mighty short of company what with all your collaborators falling by the lavender way so to speak. Stay well and you watch out for those haemorrhoids - I'm taking a guess that they'll be giving you so trouble in the coming days. Between them and the foot fungus you could be having a ough weekend -enjoy!
Dick
4. Dick D said:
June 17, 2006 at 8:24 pm
PS - all the local colour and insomniac vampires in the world can hardly help you now
5. Kenri Roshi said:
June 19, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Hi Dick,
Good to hear from you again; it's been a long time since our last meeting.
Thanks for crediting me with trying to help out, but some things are just a lost cause, as you well know. Still, I just can't help meddling in other people's affairs, particularly now that I am frequently housebound and unable to get around as much as I'd like. Oh, the joys of geriatricity!
Regarding 'OMNIUM', I feel that you were just a little harsh on Gilbert, and that perhaps a modest clue would be in order though I fear that my small contribution will be naught but a fine red herring.
In my youth, the word 'omnium' was a contraction of the mock Latin 'omnium-gatherum' and was a Stock Exchange term for the aggregate value of different stocks that a loan was funded on, and since I know that Gilbert has meddled in the past in the murky waters of high finance, this may well be the clue that he seeks.
In any event, it has been good to hear your voice again, Dick. Pop round to visit me sometime - I've always got a bottle of fine single malt to broach.
6. DickD said:
June 22, 2006 at 7:58 pm
So we meet again Professor Moriarty or whatever you are calling yourself these days. Hiding behind some discredited Sax Rohmer character does not fool me. I see your arrogance has not deserted you - Roshi indeed! Who is writing you these days you old reprobate? I thought that our encounter at the Rickenbacker Plectrum Falls had done for you once and for all but I suppose if Holmes' writer could bring him back from that fateful tussle then there was nothing to prevent any old hack resurrecting you. But in a kilt? My own new writer gave me some of the insufferable Holmes' characteristics and I figure that's how I sniffed you out but being a bit of a literary polymath who enjoys it best when his characters are having fun he gave me a fair sprinkling of abilities and predilections of one M Hammer so if you are interested in meddling in my business here you had best be warned - I now pack heat.
As for your ludicrous suggestion with respect to OMNIUM well I am very much afraid that you are, as so often, barking up the wrong tree. High Finance indeed! You still obsess about number and mathematics I see - you should try literature - Irish literature my old arch enemy if you wish to pursue this thread. For now I must bid you adieu but remember - I have your number and I'm packing these days!.
yours SH/DD/MH
7. Kenri Roshi said:
June 23, 2006 at 12:26 am
Hoi, Just who do you think you are, you obnoxious little git. Packing heat? I suppose that means you've got a lit candle stuffed up your arse. Na Gopaleen to you with your Irish writer crap. I've drunk more of those guys under the table in O'Connor's Bar and Brady's than your writer has had novels published! As for kilts, I don't wear them; frocks, yes, kilts no - horrible scratchy things with those hideous woolly stockings. Me, I prefer 10 denier sheer - and I can still kick your arse in my 4 inch stilletoes! So you're the one who'd better watch out. And as for Mike Hammer, wow I am impressed. Now there was a true literary genius, and a wonderful actor too (chortle). I hear that anyone with an IQ of no more than 40 can read him with great difficulty! Must make it easy for you then!