John Baker’s Blog

‘There’s no such thing as time,’ Geordie said. ‘Time’s a function of consciousness. If there was no consciousness there’d be no time.’
‘How about timing?’ Sam said.
‘That’s different.’
‘How?’
‘Because timing exists,’ Geordie said. ‘We could make music and dance before we knew we were doing it.’
They were in Sam’s office overlooking St. Helen’s [...]

‘Yeah, I’ve been reading those books again. I read all kinds of books. That’s one of the things I do. Everybody in the world does a few things, you know that. Or you might get some people who do lots of different things and they’re crap at all of them. Most of us, we’re good [...]

Some people have confidence from the word go. They are born into the world and have a quick squint at it between womb and cradle and think to themselves, Hey, I can handle this. No problem. It’s as if they’ve arrived here from a much worse place and they know they’ve landed on their feet. [...]

Janet was more settled when he got back home. Ralph had gone out and the house was quiet for the rest of the day. In the afternoon they took Echo for a walk around the university grounds, and in the early evening while Janet was getting her ready for bed, Geordie went to talk to [...]