Monsieur Ka Abacus For Miranda

For Miranda

one sticks to her story whilst the other keeps changing her mind

bursting with a passion for ideas

' Kevin Powers

An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it 'The Reality Dysfunction'

Monsieur Ka Abacus For MirandaWithout quite realising that I would do it until it happened, I raised myself on my toes and kissed his frozen cheek. In Paris, it would have been an unremarkable gesture. In Alexandria, an invitation. I still had no idea about London.' The London winter of 1947. As cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. The Karenins keep their vodka under the layers of snow in their suburban garden, in bottles entombed like their Russian past. But when a young