83. “Low-budget snarls in the nightclub”

“Very pantsy and high-maintenance. He had a tweezy poise and a ferny fragility, don’t you know, and really he was a bitch on a stick, though we couldn’t tell him that. I’d try and give the situation a spasmodic tweeze now and then, but nothing was going to change till he was gone.”

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Starting to come down, Jaymi sees that the colourful results of his tune-in revealed as much about his own state as they did about his subject. His and Shigem’s inconsequential chatter and the DJ’s part-ironic music-selection conspire to ruin any remaining chance of coherence or seriousness tonight.

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82. “The Supreme Ruler and her space-cat”

With her hands on her hips, she concluded her harangue with a slick, swishy, tightly-timed sass: “And that’s that, as far as I’m concerned!” before picking up her leopard-skin rabbit and sweeping across the dance-floor to the management office, followed slinkily by the space-cat emanating a regal felinity that purred Learn it, bitches! to all assembled.

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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 82:

They all go to Paradise, where Jaymi senses Shigem is aware that Jaymi tunes in to people, probably including Shigem himself. Jaymi’s stoned state tips him into a spontaneous, very “cuckoo” tune-in to Shigem.

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81. “A farcical audition for Rik”

“Eventually some prissy thespian guy with a face like a cantankerous ferret took pity and said, ‘Well, I suppose you may as well audition for something, since you do seem to be here,’ about as enthusiastic as if he was going to get a tooth extracted. He had one of those half-assed moustaches, like he’d just sneezed in an ashtray.”

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Alaia and Jaymi enjoy a mirthful stoned hang-out at Evelyn’s and Rik’s place.

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80. “Who could ask for more?”

The effects have not been drastic or intrusive: they have simply made Big Bang a bit more flashy and (this is the most accurate term) slinky than the first broadcast. In fact, I decide—this is probably the slinkiest thing I have ever watched!

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Jaymi, Alaia, Evelyn and Rik watch Big Bang in the Metropolitan’s screening-room. It is sumptuous and slick. Afterwards Jaymi could almost believe he’d be content to die tomorrow, as Sound & Vision and Big Bang feel to him at this moment like the reason he was born.

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79. “High voltage for Angel”

And yet there’s one problem, Angel, I’m afraid: you see, you can’t die. You’ll stay buried there, still alive, inside yourself, forever more, without dying. Why? Because I like you there! Yes, I like to watch you, have you noticed? Oh I see you, Angel Deon—I see every twist inside you.

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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 79:

In his room Jaymi tunes in to Angel, delving deeper into the self-lacerating and obsessive qualities of his inhabitation of his own physicality.

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78. “Theft four, and Alaia extricates herself”

I raise my hands in surrender. “You mean in future? Now the future’s one thing I can’t see, thank goodness! That would feel entirely different…”

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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 78:

Jaymi projects new material from Angel, Pippa, Kim and Shigem, Pippa again, and Kim again. Evelyn says Lucan is starting to blame Shigem for that third provocative model. Since Kim’s weasel-spotting and the wax Angel have revealed that the wax-modeller was Pippa rather than Shigem, the easiest way to protect Shigem would be to tell Lucan this … but then Lucan might hurt Pippa.Evelyn suggests that sinceLucan was persuaded by the Angel footage, they could now give him the footage of Shigem in the club at the time the head was left in Downstairs; but Alaia dissuades her from this, fearing Lucan would then reveal that he has already seen this Shigem footage, which would further reveal to Evelyn and Rik that the first disc Alaia gave Lucan was the wrong one. Evelyn says she doubts Shigem would snitch on Pippa to protect himself.

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77. “Snatching the divine on the corner of the street”

That was the clearest channel I’ve ever had into anyone—and straight through him into someone else.

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Jaymi tunes in to Kim, catching a moment of enchantment between him and Shigem.

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76. “The pussy-cats lost in translation”

I wish I could report that your mouth falls open, that laughter lights your face, that your ears feel like wings and your smile warms the night; but I can’t.

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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 76:

Jaymi tunes in to Pippa and finds her hiding under her duvet from a life she hates. Seeing this pain makes him sorry for her; he no longer wishes to go snuffling around her mind, hunting for her mysterious hidden weasel. Instead, despite knowing he cannot do the requisite active hypnotic gaze at her because she cannot see him right now, he nevertheless tries projecting a piece of fun involving singing cats.

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75. “Attitude on the phone”

“Fine for me. I’ll see you there.” And our miniature bitch-fest is cut short.

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In a phone call where a certain impatience flows both ways, rumours of the third wax model are conveyed to Jaymi by Alaia. After this call, Jaymi realises there was not enough time, between Kim’s use of binoculars this afternoon and Jaymi’s own discovery of the wax Angel on Damian’s path, for this wax Angel to have been transported there from Pippa’s high-rise, so whatever Kim saw behind Pippa’s window must still be there; and Jaymi realises he is the only one in a position to know this.

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74. “Golden on the beach for the last time”

Façades recede in both directions, matte brown and grey, flat as scenery or movie screens. A breath of wind in the dust stirs a cellophane wrapper on the road. Tiny in the distance, the street vista vanishes in glare: where it wets the horizon a shimmer hides the buildings, so the roadway punctures the smudgy blue sky. Shreds of air undulate thickly in the heat…

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Mini-synopsis of this mini-chapter 74:

Jaymi tunes in to Kim and Shigem who are lying on the beach, and his attention hovers there throughout an idyllically romantic afternoon in the sun.

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