Signal to Noise by Gaiman Neil & McKean Dave

Author:Gaiman, Neil & McKean, Dave [Gaiman, Neil & McKean, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Comics, Science Fiction, Art, Horror
ISBN: 9781878574435
Publisher: Dark Horse
Published: 1992-10-15T06:00:00+00:00

No.

And I went home.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading.

Watching TV late at night,

when there’s nothing on,

and the repetition of

the adverts becomes

a mantra, a refrain,

singing images

held in time.

I don’t answer the phone, or reply to letters.

I don’t have much time.

I’m making a film in my head.

Assembling the actors.

Setting up the shots.

I’m not writing anything down.

Anno Domini 999, the last day

of the last month of the year.

It’s winter in middle Europe

(I have left the place

unspecified); a small town in

the shadow of a mountain.

We pan in slowly: it’s like an

ants’ nest, as they run in circles

gathering up their possessions,

food, children.

We see their faces (rich,

poor, old, fat, mad).

Some stand and scoff, then they

too begin to be affected by the

others, by the utter conviction

that at last it’s here.

That it’s come.

Perhaps a flurry of snow

comes across our vision, like

a burst of noise disrupting a

frozen video image…

…and when we can see again,

they are walking away from us.

Perhaps they are

leaving the village.

They are going up to the

high place, to wait there

for the end of the world.

And here in my room (I will

be fifty soon. I wonder if I

will see that birthday, if I will

be here to celebrate)…

…all alone, I am going with them.

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