Monument Maker, page 67
Couples with Their Arms Around Each Other at Restaurants—choristers.
The Court of the Gods—classic space opera shit.
Crackpot Wing of the British Army—choristers.
Crackpots—choristers.
Crap Poofs—choristers.
Creatures with the Face of Silly Fishes—choristers.
Robert Creeley—poet. “The Figure of Outward,” according to Charles Olson.
Dr. Crevasse—creator of the WordPool.
Crew of Three on a Small Fishing Boat—choristers.
Silvia Crompton—copyeditor.
Aleister Crowley—“The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.”
The Crusaders—the Holy Land forever rearranged in their stead.
Curious Onlookers in Athens After the War—choristers.
Cynical Longhairs—choristers.
Damaged Boys—choristers.
Daredevil Fighter Pilots—choristers.
Dark Boy with a Patch on His Eye and No Top On in an Italian Prisoner-of-War Camp Near the End of the War—a lost painting, now.
Dark-Eyed Sweetie in the Sexy Librarian Glasses—chorister.
Dark Tragic Poets—choristers.
David—Christ is of his house.
David—wonderful evidence that, apart from other kinds of worship, music in particular was commanded by the Holy Ghost through David.
Davide—Flower’s ex-boyfriend, that prick.
Cait Davies—head of marketing.
The Dead—choristers.
The Dead and the Dying—choristers.
The Dead and the Dying and the Miraculously Born Again—choristers.
Dead Bodies Piled Up in Mounds—choristers.
Dead Bodies Outside Omalos in Crete—choristers.
Dead Children Buried in a Calamity—choristers.
Dead Horses Laid Out Like Letters Across a Field—choristers.
Dead Loved Ones—choristers.
Dead Parents—choristers.
Dead Sweethearts—choristers.
Deadpan Female Hired Off the Street—cold automatic voice on the end of the line.
Deaf Boy Looking Up and Pointing—the true name of Holy Maximilian Rehberg.
Guy Debord—tedious leftie.
Deceased Green Parakeet—chorister.
John Dee—court astronomer to Elizabeth I, spoke with angels in their original Enochian via his scryer, Edward Kelley, who later reincarnated as Aleister Crowley.
Daniel Defoe—author of the classic Robinson Crusoe.
Delightful Eccentric Friends from That Summer in Grez-sur-Loing—choristers.
Frederick Delius—composer who went blind at the end of his life after seeing and doing everything that was worth doing. Resident of Grez-sur-Loing in the house that would later be occupied by the Church of the Stone of First Witness. Set music to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and titled it A Mass of Life. Author of the dream poems The Last Voyage and Songs of Farewell. Telepath.
Frederick Delius’s Sisters—ten sisters, all are my sisters.
Jelka Delius—Frederick’s wife, who maintained an invisible garden in the mind of her husband, all painted pink.
Dervishes of Gereif—routed, for now.
Desolate Whores—choristers.
The Devil—is delight in what God gone done.
The Devil—is the eroticising of change.
Devious-Looking Man with a Thin Lip—chorister.
Devious Midgets at the Circus—choristers.
Danny DeVito—shortarse actor. Looks exactly like the bastard who runs the rip-off restaurant in Grez-sur-Loing.
Disembodied Entities—choristers.
Dishevelled Girl—chorister.
Disinterested Boys—choristers.
Dissenters—choristers.
Dissenting Voices—choristers.
DJs Playing Reggae on the Football Fields Outside Villiers-sur-Grez—choristers.
Doctor in a Hospital—chorister.
Doctor in an Improvised Field Hospital in Crete—chorister.
Dog Breaking Free of Its Owner and Pursuing a Duck Across the Water—chorister.
Dogboys—choristers.
Domineering Father—chorister.
Dominicans—the keepers of the true faith have nowhere to lay their heads.
Donnelly—chorister.
The Doom—drummer with Helpless Clairvoyants.
Doris—friend of the older Swedish couple in Grez-sur-Loing all those years ago now.
Fyodor Dostoevsky—author of the classic Notes from Underground.
Doubles of Dubai—warriors with second skins.
Ernest Dowson—author and poet who died at the age of thirty-two in 1900 and who once proposed to an eleven-year-old (unsuccessfully).
Arthur Conan Doyle—author of the classic “The Adventure of the Final Problem.”
Dreamy Mermaids—choristers.
Dreary Old Men in Love with Latin—choristers.
Drug Addicts—choristers.
Drummer with an Awful Head Mic—this is France.
Drunken Doorman—chorister.
Drunken Finnish Poet—resident in Grez-sur-Loing long ago now in the past. I forgot to say she was a midget.
Drunken French Rocker with Swollen Calves and a Precocious Beer Gut—chorister.
Drunken Teenagers in Sunglasses—choristers.
Bob Dylan—off his tits at the “We Are the World” recording session.
Dyspeptic Polish Writer—chorister.
The Early Church Fathers—God became man in Christ in order that man might become God.
Eccentric Collector of Old French Bottle Tops—chorister.
Meister Eckhart—union with the ultimate nothing is the highest goal of man.
Educated Bozos Living in Caves on Spinning Asteroids Trying to Hold Off the End of the World—choristers.
Elderly Japanese Couple at a Restaurant—choristers.
Elderly Kitchen Staff—choristers.
Elderly Lady Who Smells of Potpourri and Urine—chorister.
Emaciated Italian Prisoner of Conscience—chorister.
Emaciated Singer Dressed Completely in Black—Paimon.
Emaciated Street Whore—chorister.
The Emissary—aka The Weasel.
The Emperor—the wound that is given birth to must be greater than the wound that gives birth. It is Frater Jim’s father.
Encouraging Friends—choristers.
Endless Cocks Ejaculating—choristers.
Desiderius Erasmus—the suffering of Christ was not necessary, as God, in His infinite love and mercy, has more than enough forgiveness of His own, and so the crucifixion was no true sacrifice.
Escaped Prisoner Recaptured and Given a Mock Crucifixion—echoes of Hans Bonarewitz.
Katie Espiner—managing director and chief breaker of balls.
Saint-Esprit—holy ghost.
Estate Agent in the Employ of God Forever—chorister.
The Estimator—inmate in a nuthouse in Wuppertal.
The Estranged Lover—chorister.
Saint-Étienne—Saint Stephen.
Mr. Clyde Evans—project manager on The Advance, the British link in the Victory Gardens. SIRK.
Joan Evans—author of the classic Monastic Architecture in France.
Exaggerated Characters—choristers.
Fallen Angels—choristers.
Families in Swimwear Walking Home from the Beach—choristers.
Families Laid Out on Towels by the River Loing—choristers.
Famous Figures of the Day—choristers.
Fascist Bastards—any word but is.
Fascists—choristers.
Fat Girl with an Off-the-Shoulder Dress and Appealing Sunburn Drinking from a Hip Flask—chorister.
Fat Greek Thug—chorister.
Fat Village Rocker—ready to get back in the game.
Father and Son at a Table in Bourron-Marlotte on National Music Day—choristers.
Father of the Saintly Children with a Rotten Ear—chorister.
Father of the Unknown Narrator During the Siege of Khartoum
a shadow cast by the sun.
Feetless Boys—choristers.
Female Villager with a Lazy Eye—first to roll away the stone.
Female Villager with Facial Scarification Like Tiny Tears—second to roll away the stone.
Female Villager Who Remains Unrecorded—third to roll away the stone.
Females with Perfect Straight Hair Running Down to Their Thighs—choristers.
Eric Fenby—Delius’s amanuensis, telepath.
Jessie Ferguson—wife of William Ferguson, bride of all of the disappeared.
William Ferguson—in memoriam. Disappeared during the evacuation of Athens when his boat was sunk by a German bomb in April 1941. He was twenty-nine years old. Husband of Jessie Ferguson, of Calderbank, who held out all her life for his return; perhaps he had lost his memory, and was still alive, somewhere. Jessie died aged eighty-one and never saw her true love again.
Figure Perched on a Stool—chorister.
The Filth—the pigs.
Five Women from Eastern Europe—choristers.
Five-and Six-String Bassist—this is France.
Flamboyant Young Boys—choristers.
Flaming Rats Coming in Waves from the Clydeside—choristers.
The Flashlight—subterranean, founding member of the reconstituted Church of the Stone of First Witness aka The SIRK, archivist and pipe smoker, but where did he get that name.
Fleet of Handmade Snowdrops Taking Off from the Sea of Fecundity—choristers.
Fleet of Monkeys Digging Mass Graves—choristers.
Flower Flower—a Flower, is a Flower, is a Flower (is).
Biraggo Fonte—of Khartoum.
John Ford—director of the classic The Searchers.
Isa Forsyth—in memoriam. Beloved wife of Joseph Tosh, returned from the war. Dead at the age of thirty-two from kidney failure.
Chris Foss—sci-fi artist.
The Fourth Lateran Council—when the priest at the altar utters the words hoc est corpus meum (this is my body), the wine and bread is transformed into the blood and body of Christ (wow).
Franciscans—poverty, renunciation and joy is the true cathedral.
Hans Frank—Nazi, head of the General Government in Poland during the Second World War, overseer of four concentration camps; Belzec; Treblinka; Majdanek and Sobibor. Besides Albert Speer he was the only Nazi at the Nuremberg Trials to show anything approaching remorse for his crimes. He converted to Catholicism while awaiting trial and wrote a memoir, In the Face of the Gallows. Executed on 16 October 1946, he asked that God grant him mercy. His ashes were drowned in the River Isar and now he is in every waterway in the world.
Frater Jim—co-founder of the Church of the Stone of First Witness. Januist. Returned after the war with a new face and remarried his wife in secret.
Frater Jim’s Brother—a small black dog now.
Frater Jim’s Father—undead.
Frater Jim’s Wife—he came back, years later, and remarried her, in secret, with a new face, before she died in a tragic accident, never knowing that her true love had come back to her, in secret.
Frederick the Great—Prussian king and military leader.
Ellie Freedman—editorial assistant.
Freemasons—who put the first stone.
French Boys Leaping from a Bridge in Grez-sur-Loing—choristers.
Friends and Family—choristers.
Friends and Neighbours from That Summer in Grez-sur-Loing—choristers.
Friends Who Walked Away from It All Aged Seventeen—choristers.
Full Military Might of the Council of Twelve—choristers.
Fundamentalist Pigs—we may reason to the end.
Futurists—sculpture must be kinetic, the visual arts dynamic, music cacophonous.
Jean-Pierre Galezot—architect of the Curious Collared Dove Fallen From Heaven.
A Garden Enclosed—my sister, my spouse.
Paul Gauguin—painter of a nude African woman named Evermore.
The General—subterranean.
George—beautiful boy lover in Plaka.
George the Monkey—terrible toy monkey in a fake zoo.
George V—king of the United Kingdom.
A Ghost—chorister.
Ghostly Disembodied Faces in the Camps—choristers.
Gilhooley—chorister.
Cecilia Giménez—much-maligned restorer of that awful 1930s fresco Ecce Homo, true fosterer of Christ in time.
Girl in a Dark-Blue Bikini with the Most Perfectly Pert Young Teenage Ass (a Rarity in France, as We Have Established) Moving Her Towel into the Sun—chorister.
Girls of Another Summer—choristers.
Gislebertus—GISLEBERTUS HOC FECIT. Architect of the Cathedral of Saint Lazarus, in Autun, patron saint of our stone-cold hearts.
William Gladstone—prime minister of the United Kingdom.
God—to the glory of.
Joseph Goebbels—Nazi minister of propaganda, died by suicide in the Reich Chancellery on 1 May 1945, after Hitler shot himself.
Gordon of Khartoum—Charles Gordon, Chinese Gordon, Heart’s True Gordon, Defender of the Empire, Unbowed Gordon.
Hermann Göring—Nazi military leader, First World War fighter pilot ace, and convicted war criminal. Committed suicide on 15 October 1946, the night before he was to be hanged. His ashes were drowned in the River Isar, and now he resides in all the waterways of the world.
Francisco Goya—artist whose The Third of May 1808 in Madrid, painted in 1814, is one of the great masterpieces of religious painting. Most everything in the picture is lit by an impossible moon, it would appear, which in turn is lit by way of an impossible sun, except for the hero, the central hero whose body is lit by a mysterious cube, a lantern, it seems, but a mysterious illuminated ark all the same, and its light takes up the hero of the body, except for his head, which remains in the moon, and inside the box is death, which is spoken in light, inside of which is a head, a disembodied head, which is the body of the hero, projected. Picasso considered the painting to be under a spell, a supernatural spell, and he compared the crucified stance of the hero to the skeleton of a bat, which is the ancient of nightmares. Goya’s headless corpse is buried inside his art. No one knows where his head is. Supposedly.
Grandparents—choristers.
The Grass of the Field—choristers.
Great Crowds at the Passion Play in Oberammergau—choristers.
Great Eastern European Beauty—chorister.
The Greatest Men of the Twentieth Century—choristers.
Greek Nuns in Bloodied Habits Treated Like Circus Animals—choristers.
Greek Whores in the Dying Years—choristers.
The Green Beret—smart-ass subterranean.
Frank A. Greenhill—author of the classic Incised Effigial Slabs, published by Faber & Faber at, one imagines, considerable expense, and, surely, with little hope of recouping their costs, in the year of 1976.
Gregory of Tours—“Worship what you burn, and burn what you worship.”
The Grey Lady—unknown woman with a face like granite and arched eyebrows that seem to contain all the sorrow and pain of the world.
The Grey Wolf—aka Arthur McManus aka The Grey Bat aka The Grey Owl aka The Silent Owl aka The Grey Fox aka The Grey Shark aka De Schrijver aka Aha aka Art.
Grez-sur-Loing History and Village Preservation Society—choristers.
Group of Avant-Garde Thinkers and Cultural and Political Radicals in the Years Before the War in Düsseldorf—choristers.
Group of Black Men in Full Uniform Shopping for Gifts at a Market Stall for Their Sweethearts Back Home—choristers.
Group of Heads Attempting to Levitate the Pentagon—choristers.
Group of Men Urinating on a Woman—choristers.
Group of Mid-Level British Commanders in an Italian Prisoner-of-War Camp—choristers.
Group of Villagers on a River of Africa—choristers.
Group of Women Dressed in Skintight Rubber Space Suits—choristers.
Group of Young SA Men in Düsseldorf—choristers.
Groupies Backstage on the Moon—choristers.
Groups of Villagers Who Stop Talking as Soon as Jim and Max Appear—choristers.
Guards Casually Beating Men and Women—choristers.
Guards Holding Up Emaciated Bodies and Forcing Them to Perform for the Camera—choristers.
Che Guevara—your corpulent Scoutmaster.
Guy in a Baseball Cap and a Turquoise T-Shirt with the Number 10 on It Trying to Tempt His Dog into the Water with a Tennis Ball—chorister.
Guy in a White Trilby, Knee-Length Shorts and an Unbuttoned Purple Shirt Who Was Also Spotted Roaring Drunk in Nemours
chorister.
Guy with a Pair of Chiselled-Off Privates—chorister.
Guy with a Rearranged Face—chorister.
Gypsies—choristers.
Gypsy Boy Whose Face Had Been Eaten Away by the Pox—chorister.
Johnny Hallyday—“Le Rocker Originel.” On the wall of the bar in Bourron-Marlotte.
Adelaïd Hamelin—built a house, once, in Larchant, in the summer of 1792, with her husband Jean Pierre Bernard.
Handsome Soldier Staring into Space—chorister.
Mary Hanna—the legendary Mary Hanna; bassist for Memorial Device, member of Dark Bathroom, secret sculptor.
Hardnuts with Big Kick-Your-Cunt-In Faces—choristers.
Miss Harriet—carnaptious bitch.
George Harrison—does he even appear in the “We Are the World” video?
Hateful Jeans and No-Top Guy Talking on the Payphone—chorister.
The Headless Horseman—aka the Headless Hessian of the Hollow, a trooper killed at the battle of White Plains who came back headless.
