21-12-10 excerpt

an excerpt from the current novel, ‘MIKE’:

“Is the mind an empty vessel of perception which we fill with belief, faith, even history?  The half empty glass, the lilliputian egg cracked the wrong way round? A precious little nothing that we desire to be something and which communication absolutely corrupts? A non-thing dancing on the page with dyslexic purity, the reflex of signs, a mystery beyond right or wrong…”