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The Overnight Editor: The 000-999 of London.
You know ambergris - whale vomit, used to make perfume? Well noctilukre is like human ambergris.
It’s an accretion of all those London nights out - all the booze, the pub-smoke and club-floor grime, slowly built up into a solid deposit inside the body.
Our judges said:
I. Loved. This. Post. From the early morning battery acid breath to his final call for more drinks.
I laughed, then cringed, then laughed some more until I thought I’d puke up Noctilukre. It’s a tour worth exploring, these parallel Londons. I’m familiar with a few, but didn’t quite realize they were itching to be documented. Last time I wretched up a pearl, it turned out to be bridgework … and I’m not convinced it was mine.
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Thanks all.
This was less a post, more a framework for posts to come. I thought about renaming the whole blog “a thousand Londons”
I only have a little Noctilukre left, so feel free to explore the other Londons yourself. I’d be surprised if there weren’t similar ways to travel in other cities.
Did anyone spot the nod to another author I tucked away…?
The Overnight Editor
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“Did anyone spot the nod to another author I tucked away…?”
Was it Jeff Noon?
No. But it is a sci-fi/fantasy author. OE.