ECHO 5/2/06

The couple still managed their love life despite the covert need to accomplish it without the parents overhearing or discovering them. For the woman, in fact, it became something of a thrill – the prospect of being caught aroused her even more.

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A man alone in his car driving at breakneck speed through the night. No longer knowing who or what he is – just going, leaving whatever past he had behind him or at least trying to – his successful partner, stability – now he loses all sense of fear and mortality and instead of heading home, guns the accelerator and follows the road wherever it will take him – he no longer feels he can provide or give, that he is not the equal of her, that his opportunities are limited and predictable – all night he goes, just the white lines and the darkness beyond the halo of the headlamps, briefly he stops at ‘Rumblin’ Tums’ café – eventually he ends up at the coast, a small fishing town – he has no idea if he is North or South but here he stops and books himself into a hotel with the notion that he might start afresh without burden of the previous ‘him’ – the blind funk, the absolute terror of jealousy and failure, of an inner loneliness turning itself into solitude in fact a call to be found -