The setting, part 1
The whole thing started with this, I guess. This street. I read about it, not in the usual place (I would read that book only after having started off on a first, not much liked version of the first chapters of what I hope will one day be a novel) but in a book by Coetzee, a book about someone writing a book about someone in a book and that someone in a book, let’s call her Molly or Mrs. Bloom, lives in this street. It’s quite a nice street too, not nearly as shabby as I expected it to be. Well done, Bloom!