Books by Charlie Hill

Author:Charlie Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2013-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

A short story by Richard, a setback for Lauren

Three days after they had met at her house, Lauren opened her email at work to find she had a message from Richard:

Dear Lauren,

So this is a thought that occurred to me at your house the other day. It may have been the Merlot that got me thinking – or the Cab Sauv or the Shiraz – but I decided to share it with you anyway, as – you never know – you might find it comes in handy at some point.

I saw your books, you see. And all I saw was fol-de-ra and ra-dee-yay and nice little portraits of worlds decorated by the dead white scholars of Decorum Inc. The thing is, books should be more than this. It’s a writer’s job to stimulate. To provoke. To prod and poke people into wanting more, not to cop out. Not to paper over the cracks in the wall.

And we should encourage them too. We should read the good stuff. Because let’s face it, wanting more is all there is. We should all want more than just existence, more than just our neurons sparking or reflexes reflexing. More than mediocrity. We should want to live life. And if we’re going to live life we have to grab it by the throat and throttle it up and out from inside, and whether or not we can – whether or not we do – is down to the books we read, the art we look at, the music we listen to. We’re all affected by all of this, all of the time. It matters.

You might think that this is another one of my ‘abstract’ ideas, another little point in a ‘theoretical debate’. But it isn’t. In fact I’d go so far as to say that no one can begin to fully understand SNAPS without grasping this.

Any road. I don’t think you’ve read any of my stuff yet. So I thought I’d send you this story, by way of illustration.

Respectfully yours, lots of love, etc. etc.

Mr Richard Anger Esq, ‘The Attic’, Harborne

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