Sunday, October 02, 2005

The Boy Who Heard Music - Chapter 3 - Thumbnail

Pete has already posted Chapter 3 a week ahead of time.

"I Heard Music"
Ray remembers his childhood in the bombed-out post-war streets of London. Now that he has finished his lunch, he sits in his rocking chair, staring out the Thames outside his window and lets his mind drift into the story...

...In the story a teenage Gabriel is sitting by the Thames in 1975. He gets up and runs down the bank by his friend Josh's house, all the while hearing music emanating from the world around him.

We learn that Gabriel always wears a Yarmulke even though he isn't Jewish as it was a present from his friend Josh. Both live in Acton. Josh's parents are Orthodox Jews, his dad a traveling salesman, his uncle studying to be an accountant.

Gabriel's parents are in showbiz. Known as "Donnie and Connie," they appeared on radio and TV while leaving Gabriel to stay with his aunt when they went on tour or holiday cruises.

Ray, meanwhile, reveals that his own mother, whose name was Rosalynd (the same as the fictional pre-teen girl in Psychoderelict), was a singer who met and fell in love with his dad during World War II while he was performing as a magician.

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