Streets

I've just been going through some of the notebooks I've been using recently, mainly for Don Findy, and I came across a line I wrote a few weeks ago walking home from work. The idea started with The Singing Detective and the references to chewing that I mentioned earlier in the blog;

'Another piece that has been sitting in my mind is the way Philip Marlow (Potter's protagonist, notice the missing 'e') describes people outside as 'chewing' each other. There's something in that, the consumption of the outside world, the way in which people treat each other. I will come back to this later. '

(Source: http://crimeandgunishment.blogspot.com/2008/10/singing-detective.html)

Which lead on to my line;

'I walked along the chewing gum roads. The roads that people have spat out. / I walked along the chewing gum road; the streets that have been spat out of people.'

(Source: http://crimeandgunishment.blogspot.com/2008/10/notebooks.html)

This has remained with me and, when thinking about the roads of Ipswich, and how to describe them, I came up with this;

'I followed my shadow down Norwich Road where the takeaway signs reflected in the wet cracks creating neon puddles.'

I'm happy with this and hope to use this later in the piece, possibly in connection to the 'chewing gum' roads line.