![]() (As this is B S Johnson, we get a typewritten image of Christie’s accounts.) He starts off small, for example by scratching the wall of a building that is in his way, stealing stationery from his employer and placing phony orders. As an accountant he keeps a double entry accounting record of where he has been slighted and plans to obtain appropriate credit for these debits. He settles down to work at Tapper’s but is soon disgruntled.Ĭhristie feels, as many of us must do, that life is not entirely fair to him. ![]() He takes up with a sexually eager young woman – think vacuum cleaners and shaving foam – known only as the Shrike. ![]() ![]() Christie lives with his mother but, as soon as she is not needed for novelistic purposes, she agrees to write herself out of the novel. He soon realises that this isn’t going to work and decides to become an accountant, taking up a position as an invoice clerk at Tapper’s, makers of sweets and cakes. Christie Malry starts his career as a bank clerk because he wants to be near the money. This is a wicked book and I mean that in a thoroughly positive sense. Johnson: Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry ![]() Johnson » Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry B. ![]()
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