Dining on Stones by Iain Sinclair

Author:Iain Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241965986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

But this, apparently, was young Rodinsky’s Purgatory, his expulsion from Whitechapel. Sent into care, mother incapable, into old-village/new-estate limbo, he never forgot the childhood episode and traced his autobiographical routes onto a pulp-paper map. He made Dagenham a mystery. And Norton (the other one, the literary vampire) dogged his footsteps. Which led to a museum, Valence House, and a primitive artefact. (Photo enclosed.)

Here I discovered, among the portraits of the Fanshawes and the period rooms, a dark wooden figure, which I elected as my spiritual guide. It had been found in the marshes in 1922 and was known as ‘The Dagenham Idol’. It looked African, armless, with asymmetrical peg legs and a large, paddle-shaped head with deeply indented eye-sockets. It was thought to date from somewhere between 2350 and 2140 BC. The thin, diseased legs, good for hopping or punting on a stout stick, proved the authenticity of this figure: the primal Dagenham limper, the ur-gimp.

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