GANTOB is not going to be happy. I have gone through each of my earlier posts and inserted an image within the blog. I had not appreciated that the “featured” images that I had meticulously added when preparing blogs on previous days are only seen if you click into the individual post. A casual browser (not quite a “doom scroller” I feel) would just have seen the boring black and white text.
The image that you will hopefully see below, of a bridge, is key to today’s blog, and indeed the whole story of GANTOB and The Benefaktor(*). It has already featured, but from a different angle, in a previous blog.
To reach the bridge we will need to walk back from our last physical location (the Little Free Library at the bottom of Scotland Street), clockwise round Drummond Place, back up Dublin Street (my grandson used to call it “hating hill” when he was little), bypassing the bus station, and to the location of the Mog poster that I have just added to a previous post (James Craig Walk). I should mention that as it is Saturday, a day when I can afford to take my foot off the peddle just a little, I am listening to music while I type. So our walk is soundtracked by Max Richter’s repositioning of Vivaldi’s Spring, from his album Recomposed. This seems appropriate for a blog that stems from work for the KLF Re-enactment Society.
The Mog poster has gone, as has most evidence of Fringe. As we are waiting to cross the wide junction where Leith Street, Princes Street and North Bridge meet at Waterloo Place, we need to separate and go our separate ways.
I, The Benefaktor, will be turning down Leith Street, taking the steps as a shortcut past The Black Bull, then The Bunker, along Calton Road, to stand underneath Regent Bridge (pictured above). That is where I stood on 23 August 2023.
Meanwhile, our imagined GANTOB (who is actually still up in Badenoch) is walking along Waterloo Place, rifling through her bag, to find her carefully folded pamphlet 1 (The Kompetition), ready to launch it as a paper plane from the same bridge but ten days earlier and five floors up.
THE BENEFAKTOR
30 September 2023
(*) GANTOB would no doubt want me to highlight that it only had a peripheral role in her “solo” story, in two rather disappointing “pamphlet plane” launches (1|2).
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