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Alma walks on, past the arched entrance to a cobbled yard, an unmistakeably Victorian construction that has ”Dickens Brothers, Ltd” hand-lettered up above the archway. She suspects that elsewhere in the town there stands a black beamed Tudor premises called ”Shakespeare’s” and perhaps a ”Chaucer & Sons” half-thatched cottage out near Hardingstone. Northampton, after all, is a well-labelled town. Once, from her window, she saw two vans pass each other, travelling in opposite directions on East Park Parade. One, possibly belonging to a mattress company, had the word DREAM stencilled upon its side. The other one, perhaps a television or computer retailer, was blazoned with the word REALITY. She’d noted that REALITY was heading for town centre, which was unsurprising, while DREAM followed a trajectory that would eventually lead it to Kettering. She thought that it was more than likely going there to die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alan Moore, Jerusalem<\/em>, s. 795, Knockabout Ltd., 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alma walks on, past the arched entrance to a cobbled yard, an unmistakeably Victorian construction that has ”Dickens Brothers, Ltd” hand-lettered up above the archway. She suspects that elsewhere in the town there stands a black beamed Tudor premises called ”Shakespeare’s” and perhaps a ”Chaucer & Sons” half-thatched cottage out near Hardingstone. Northampton, after all, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleviivattua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}