"Forensics, ah'll gie ye forensics!"
John, is she gone, aye, gone,
Never tae be forgotten?
Aye, rotten - to the core
Damned whore....
Sipping on his I.P.A.
Rebus reflects
Anyway
He suspects
One and all
"Last call,
Hiv yese nae homes to go tae!
We're closed, shut, off, the noo!"
John staggers to the bar
"John is it you?"
"Aye, me, d'ye have a cigarette"
Regal? "Wis that the best ye could find
Ye ghet!"
The cigarette tap-dances on the table edge,
Hedging
His bets, Rebus gets
Into a taxi, which lurches to a halt
"Are ye gettin in or oot?"
"Ma fault....
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars....
A life lived in closes, streets, and bars
The skull, that was close
Mark it
Fleshmarket?
Ah'm getting oaf
At Haymarket
John rises to unsteady feet
"Aye the warld, aye
'Twould gar ye greet
And dawn rises, gilding the Grassmarket roofs with gentle light...
"Shite!"
Author notes
Yese'll find the solution here. Aye, right..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Rebus
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hmmm... very good. I often wish we had sound capability here. (or that I knew how to use it; I guess you can upload a video of your voice reading at youtube and post it but it's hopeless.)
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A Rebus
Pictures in place of words. Well - I love John Rebus - I want him to come to supper. IF not him then Ian Rankin. Rebus is well written as a character and his m usical taste is blessedly eclectic and he not a synaesthete or a toff or a Chief Inspector. He's always a bit seditious and pissed. He's my kind of murder mystery vaguely intelligent and bastard to authority polliss (sp?) xx He flys by the seat of his unwashed smelly shiny suit pants. Also, I get him out on audio books and I love to be read to by a Scotsman as I iron shirts and clean the bog. xx -
Ah wonder whit Ian Rankin wid think o' this? Well, it disnae matter whit he thinks--Ah loved it!
Great stuff,
Bill
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Aye, thanks Bill. I've not read that many of the Rebus novels masel', but Fleshmarket Close was a cracker. John's even had the honour of having a limited edition beer named after him by Caledonian breweries. But kenning him, he'd stick tae the Deuchars an' the fags. Aye the prices these days -criminal!
http://www.scottishbrewing.com/breweries/LothianNEdinburgh/Caledonian.php
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Interesting piece
you've penned here. I thought it was captivating with the mystery of a crime. Execellent job mate
Thank you for entering, and good luck in the contest.
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