As Friedrich Kittler has suggested see my first chapter , acoustic modernity was shaped by the bodily disassociation brought about by technologies such as the gramophone and the radio: the body no longer needed to be present for it to be the source of human sound. Youd be better listening to the pots and pans, The Doug deadpanned. I heard a rumour that the batch had been cut with strychnine but I tried to keep my thoughts somewhere else even as I had to fight the idea of picking up the phone and asking Sore Arse if everything was okay. I still do. I had just learned to drive and I would drive all the way to Caldercruix and up past the reservoir and then back to my old school more like old prison camp then down to the Safeway car park and round past the train station and once I saw Patty and his girlfriend at the time, I never met her, it was just before we began hanging out and they split up shortly afterwards, but I remember thinking thats a real romance, thats lying back in the grass and talking about Sylvia Plath right there.
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