Oct 3, 2015

 Extract from 'Jungle Strut', the next chapter to be uploaded (Chapter 6, from mystery-comedy novel, 'The Investigations of the Para-Usual'): 

It was then, after making the Picasso-cabbie observation, that O’Singh said something. Asked a question. One which would throw the fate of the Earth, this small corner of the cosmos, into uncertainty. And at the same time carve one of the few moments in human history when someone in a moment of clarity sits up and announces something like, ‘Hold on a minute, this apple headache. Might be something to do with gravity.’ Or, ‘C-cubed? No, what was I thinking? It’s not as much as that. What if we ease off the Cs? Make it e = mc, e = m c-squared at the very most?’

O’Singh asked the cabbie: ‘What if we wanted to stuff a dead bat?’