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38. PUPPENKOPH

39. BED DUST

40. THE DREAM ACADEMY

41. A TOAST TO MR. POLLARD

42. HIS MISSINGNISS

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 Pattern Recognition



1. THE WEBSITE OF DREADFUL NIGHT



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Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and everтИТcircling wolves
of disrupted circadian rhythm.

It is that flat and spectral nonтИТhour, awash in limbic tides, brainstem stirring fitfully, flashing inappropriate
reptilian demands for sex, food, sedation, all of the above, and none really an option now.

Not even food, as Damien's new kitchen is as devoid of edible content as its designers' display windows in
Camden High Street. Very handsome, the upper cabinets faced in canaryтИТyellow laminate, the lower with
lacquered, unstained appleтИТply. Very clean and almost entirely empty, save for a carton containing two dry
pucks of Weetabix and some loose packets of herbal tea. Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its
interior smells only of cold and longтИТchain monomers.

She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct:
that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake
of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that
quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

She wonders if this gets gradually worse with age: the nameless hour deeper, more null, its affect at once
stranger and less interesting?