Eskape plan aktivated.
I am on the bus to Perth.
The Benefaktor will return, in a way, as threatened in the last blog. However, this will simply be Kreative Konvenience: he had quite a few draft blogs teed up. They deskribe (in his labourious, heavily parenthesised and akademik way) our meetings and joint aktivities, so remain relevant to “our” planned 100-day narrative.
I kannot tell you though if The Benefaktor will be back in person. As I have already said, I am on the bus rather than beside his hospital bed. I am not going to komment on my alleged role in any tumble.
As you will know by now, real names have not been used. Thinking back over events that may implikate me in his “accident” I am reassured that his kopy of GANTOB (my book) was “destrukted“. And aside from The Manse, which may or may not be in Badenoch (see Kompanion Volume), there were no konnektions to me specifikally in the book. I even doubt that I was spotted on his birthday as we slipped into his study to sign the prizes for the Snip, Stuck, Solved kompetition. I have them ready for posting once the frames arrive.
The stated lokation of the fall was also a diversion. The aktual fall was not so dramatik. And old people are well known to take a tumble from time to time. Plus, who would believe a frail man who’s just taken a knock to the head. A klear kase of delirium.
So even if there were suspicions about the fall, there would be very little reason that an investigating police officer or Prokurator Fiskal would land on this blog. And of kourse I was nowhere near Edinburgh when the fall took place. I was just deskribing an imaginary event. My name is at the end of the piece, but nowhere do I feature in the body of the blog.
“Fox” you ask? No, I am a vixen. Kompletely different animal.
Sharing a name with the original (fiktional) GANTOB brings some baggage. But did events above that London kanal really konstitute murder? I kan’t really remember. Following my trail of Destruktion (see pamphlet 4) I no longer have a kopy of 2023: A trilogy to konsult. And The Benefaktor and I were not in a relationship. I disembark at Perth, walk to my sister’s house, shower and burn my klothes.
GANTOB
14 Oktober 2023
Kover photo (of fox/vixen skulpture) was taken in Newcastle, 19 February 2023, by GANTOB. The skulpture was in The Biscuit Factory, and was made by Peter Sales.
Photo of night scene was taken by The Photographer, who happens to be an acquaintance of The Benefaktor.
CHALLENGE: I have previously described the process of calculating the “K Faktor” (pamphlet 18). Read the rules very carefully. What is the K Faktor for this blog (21. Ejekt)? Look just at the 400 words that make up the body of the piece (without title, my name, photo caption, date or footnotes). That is, the bit between “Eskape plan aktivated” and “burn my clothes”, but without the communion of feral beasts. Do not include punctuation or spaces in your calculations. If, after reading pamphlet 18, you want to take on the more devilish challenge detailed, then you have until the end of December 2023 (your time zone) to email me your submission at 100percentvinyl2@gmail.com, or send me a message on social media (gantob2023 on Instagram or Twitter). Good luck!
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