by David Keenan
sex, under railway bridges, 1
Sex Pistols, The, 1
sexist, 1
sexual epiphany, 1
sexy words, 1
shadow, lack of, 1, 2
Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France, 1, 2, 3
Shangri-Las, The, 1
Sharrock, Linda, 1
Sharrock, Sonny, 1
Shepp, Archie, 1
sherbet dip, 1
Shettleston, Glasgow (East End), 1, 2, 3, 4
Shettleston, Glasgow, department store in, 1, 2
Shettleston Library, Wellshot Road, Glasgow, 1
Shield of Sublimity, 1
ship, going into the night, 1
ships, great ships, scuppered, illuminated in the dark, 1
ships, swaying in the tide, 1
shipwreck, rocking back and forth on the bottom of the ocean, 1
shoe shop on Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow, 1
shoplifting, 1
shortbread, wet, 1
shorts, repellent, 1
Shotts, 1
sickly joy, 1
sideboard, 1, 2
silence, at night, 1, 2
silent gallery, that, 1
Silly Sisters, 1
silver belt, thin, 1
silver leggings, 1
Sinatra, Frank fucking, 1
singing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
singing about nothing, 1
singing about plants growing up, 1, 2
singing about singing, 1
singing about the weather, 1
single malt, 1
Sioux, Siouxsie, 1
Sirius, the dog star, possible presence of, 1
Sisters of Mercy, The, 1
Situationist-style cartoons (crap ones), 1
skeleton crew, 1
Skidz, 1
skinned beetroot, like a, 1
skint, totally, 1
skip(s), 1, 2, 3
skirmish, 1
skirt, stuck out at a forty-five-degree angle (wow), 1
skirts, up to here, 1
skull and bones, laughing, now, 1
slacks, nice pair of (see also: trousers), 1
Slamannan, 1
sleeper train (Glasgow to London), 1
sleeping, naked in the snow, 1
sleeping, on the beach, 1
sleeping, rough, 1
slug, random, picked off the ground, cooked and then eaten, 1
small leaf, 1
small poetry magazine, 1
Smarties, 1
smell (of horse’s breath), 1
smell (of stale make-up), 1
smell (of warm towels drying on radiators), 1
Smith, Patti, 1, 2
smitten, 1
Smugglers’ Cove, the Isle of Man, 1
snails, eaten in Kilmarnock, 1
snakebite (pint of), 1
snakes, 1, 2
sniffing vinyl, practice of, 1, 2
snitches, 1
snooker table, 1
snots, yellow, big, disgusting (all over his face), 1
snow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
snow, memory or dream of, 1, 2
snowdrops (so white and forlorn), 1
Snyder, Gary, 1
So Alone, 1
social commentary, as anathema to Mary Hanna, 1
social commentary, as something that is simply not art, 1, 2
Soho, London, 1, 2
Soho Square, London, 1
solder, 1
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 1
some young hunk, 1
Song of Songs, the, 1
songs about animals, 1
songs about autumn leaves and flowers in the springtime, 1
songs about being all tore up, 1
songs about being pure enamoured, 1
songs about complete despair (possibly), 1
songs about despair, 1
songs about existential lifestyles, 1
songs about falling in love, 1
songs about falling out of love, 1
songs about God, 1
songs about meeting, 1
songs about memory, 1
songs about songs, 1
songs about the past and the future, 1
songs about the seasons, 1
songs about wanting to be an animal or act like one, 1
songs that were meant to salve guilty feelings, 1
songs that were more like social commentary (trivial songs), 1
songs that were written out of guilt alone, 1
songs that would reconcile the past and the future, 1
Sonics, The, 1
Sounds, 1, 2
South America, 1
South Armagh, Ireland, 1, 2
South Bank, London, 1
South Bridge Street, Airdrie, worst street in, 1, 2
Southern boppers, 1
Space Echo, 1
space hopper(s), 1
‘Space Hymn’, 1
spag bog (crackin), 1
Spain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Spain, south of, 1
speak up (pal), 1
spectre, 1
spider’s web, significance of, 1, 2
spinning (oh my god), 1
spirit-lappers, 1
spliff, 1
Spock, Mr, 1
spoon technique, in practice, 1
spying for the state (man), 1
squib-packer, 1
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, 1, 2
St Patrick’s Church, Soho Square, London, 1
St Paul’s, London, 1
Staging Post, Airdrie, The, 1, 2, 3
standing stone, 1
Stanley knives, 1
star, behind the stars, 1
star, five-pointed, 1
starship of stone, 1
stately homes (dilapidated), 1
Status Quo, 1
Steeleye Span, 1
stocking tops, unforgettable glimpse of, 1
stockings (see also: nylons; tights; lingerie), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
stockings, and suspenders, 1
stockings, dark, 1
stockings, frayed, 1
stockings, home-made, 1
stockings, until the day I die, so help me god, 1
Stooges, The, 1
storm troopers, 1, 2, 3
storms (come crackling out of the past), 1
stormy weather, 1
stranded, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
strange fruit (hanging from the branches), 1
Stranglers, The, 1
street food, 1
street performance group, 1
submarine (with a leak), 1
submerge, 1
subterranean biker scene, 1
suburban backstreets on horseback, 1
suburban marriage, death in life of, 1
Subway Sect, 1
suffering, collective commitment to, 1
suffering beauties, 1
suicide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
suicide, scaling a cliff face, resemblance to, 1
Suicide, 1, 2, 3, 4
Suicide: Alan Vega – Martin Rev, 1
suicide attempt, 1, 2
Suicider of the Four Thousand, 1
summer hills, 1
summer jobs, 1
summer love, 1, 2, 3
sunglasses after dark, 1
Sunnyside station, Coatbridge, 1
Sunset Glow, 1
sunspots, 1
superhero(s), 1, 2
supermarket trolleys, 1
supermen, 1
superstitions (various), 1, 2
surrealist conference, 1
suspect tapes, 1
suspender belt (black silk), 1
swallowed (by history), 1
sweaty hands, 1
sweaty palms, 1
Swedish, 1, 2, 3
sweet cheeks, 1
sweet friend, 1, 2
sword & sorcery crap, 1
symbolism,
way beyond the long blank, 1
symbols (to be evoked), 1
symmetry, 1
synchronicities, 1
synth-pop (naff), 1
synth-pop bullshit, 1
syringes, 1
T-shirt (repellent), 1
Tábor, Czechoslovakia, 1
Tabor, June, 1
Tago Mago, 1
talking shit, 1
tall grass with the stars, 1
tangerines, 1
tank top, 1, 2
tape loops, 1
tattoo(s), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
tattoos and earrings and long hair (what did I tell you about), 1
Tavern, Airdrie, The, 1
taxi, back of, 1
teachers, slackest, 1
teeth, yellow, 1
Tel Aviv, Israel, 1, 2
telescope, 1
Television, 1
Tempest, The, 1
ten (o’clock), 1
ten (years of living like a reptile we’ve all been there), 1
Tennent’s, 1
testicles, 1, 2, 3
testicles (removed in a backstreet operation), 1, 2
testicles (removed on the NHS, impossibility of), 1
tête-à-tête, 1, 2
‘Texas Flood’, 1
Thames, the, 1, 2
that is a total deal-breaker, 1
‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’, 1
theory about bugs (Big Patty’s), 1
theory about central heating (Big Patty’s), 1
theory about space and time, 1
theory about sweat (Big Patty’s), 1
theory about the deaths of men and women, 1, 2
theory about urine (Big Patty’s), 1
theory about white (Miriam McLuskie’s), 1
Theosophy Society, Glasgow, The, 1
third, of the night, 1
third, of your life, 1
thirteen (years old), 1
thirties (mid-), 1
thirty (count to), 1
thirty-two (years old), 1
thirty-three (pages), 1
This Heat, 1
Thompson, Jim fucking, 1
Thought of the End Phrase, 1
thread, single, 1
three (inches), 1
three (languages), 1
three hundred (pages), 1
three thousand (snakes), 1
‘three-speed’, meaning of, 1
Throbbing Gristle, 1
Thunders, Johnny, 1, 2, 3
Thunders, pulling a, 1
tights (see also: stockings; nylons; lingerie), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
tights, black, 1
tights, dark woolly, 1
tights, skewed, 1
Timbuktu, 1
Tinkerbells Fairydust, 1
Tipp-Ex, 1, 2
Tippetts, Julie, 1
tit (see also: breast), 1, 2, 3
tit-fucking, 1
tit-fucking, double, 1
tits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
tits, ejaculation over (special), 1, 2
tits, fake, 1
tits, hanging out, 1
tits, rebuild, potential, 1
toad (undeniable), 1
toilet (painted black), 1
Tolstoy, Leo, 1
tomboy (for sure), 1
tone (strange) (high), 1
top hat (with shades), 1
Top of the Pops, 1
tortured strips of iron, 1
toss, couldn’t give one, 1
tossed off (see also: chug; masturbation), 1
tosspots, vacant, 1
total artwork, 1
total disdain for the world, 1
total frenzy (taking one), 1
total nightmare, 1
total prude, 1
total space cadet, 1
tough-looking salt, 1
toughs (see also: hoods; gangsters), 1, 2
tournament, 1
tower block, demolished, sound of it collapsing (or forget it), 1
‘Tracing Paper Moon’, 1
tracksuit, blue, 1
tracksuit, bottoms pulled right up to the nipples, 1
tragic models, 1
tragic tributary, the, 1
train(s), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
transfigured by death, 1
transgressive types, 1
transmissions (in Paris), 1
trees (tall), 1
trench coat, 1
Trojan horse (attempted) (reputed), 1
Troon, 1
trousers, beige (see also: slacks), 1
trousers, tight leather, 1, 2
true code of the warrior, 1
true romance, 1
Truffaut, François, 1
Tudor Hotel, Airdrie, The, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tunnock’s tea cakes, 1
Turgenev, Ivan, 1
Turk, Allen ‘Gut’, 1
Turkish Delight, 1
Turner, Tina, 1
turquoise, 1, 2, 3, 4
TV, big fuck-off one in the living room, 1
twenty (miles per hour), 1
twenty (minutes), 1, 2, 3, 4
twenty (minutes late), 1
twenty thousand (leagues away), 1
Twiggy, 1
twilight, 1, 2
two (miles an hour), 1
two guitarists soloing non-stop for about forty-five minutes, 1
Two Tub Man, 1
typical intellectual feminist type (completely unattractive to women), 1
UFO(s), 1, 2
ugly troll under a bridge, 1
umbilical (sorry), 1
unborn (still), 1
uncanny suburban dread, atmosphere of, 1
Uncle Adolf, 1
Under the Volcano, 1
underdogs, still dogs (reminder), 1
underground comics, 1
unmarried mothers (in the West End), 1
unmolested (comparatively), 1
unnameable, the, 1
unsayable, the, 1
up anchor (once more), 1
urine, 1, 2, 3, 4
urine, drinking your own, 1
urine, unmistakable smell of, 1
useless cunts, 1
uvula, 1
vagabond, 1
vampire flick, 1
vampire movie, 1
vampire puncture, 1
Vanity of Duluoz, 1
vaporiser, 1, 2
vaudeville take on rock n roll (depressing), 1
vegetarian, 1, 2, 3
Velvet Underground, The, 1, 2, 3, 4
Venue, Edinburgh, The, 1
‘Venus in Furs’, 1
verification, 1
Verlaine, Paul, 1
vertigo, 1, 2
Vespas, 1
vest(s), 1, 2, 3, 4
Victorian semis, 1
video(s), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vietnam, 1
Viking axe, 1
violent overlords (living in the mouth of hell), 1
violin, 1, 2
violin bows, 1
Virgin, Glasgow, 1, 2
visionary environment, 1
Visions of Cody, 1
vistas (associated with the future), 1
visualisations, 1
vodka, 1
voice, automatic kind of, 1, 2
Voice of the Turtle, 1
voids, fatherless, 1
volcano, home-made, 1, 2, 3
volition, lack of, 1
vulva, like an egg, 1
‘Waking/light from the window/a confluence of birds/with/names’, 1
Wales, 1
walking cures, 1
walking into the future, 1
walking stick (Irish), 1
walking straight into the past, 1
Walkman(s), 1, 2, 3
wank off (see also: masturbation; tossed off; chug), 1
wap, wap, wap …, 1
war gaming, 1
water on the brain, 1
waterfall, 1
&n
bsp; waters of oblivion, 1
waterworks, removed, 1
‘We did not know his unheard-of head …’, 1
web of lies, 1
Wee Oddity, The, 1
weird character traits (aggrandising), 1
weirdos, 1
Weiss beer, 1
Weller, Paul, 1
werewolf, 1
Wesertag, 1
Weserzeit, 1
West Bank, the, 1
West End Park, Coatdyke, 1
West George Street, Glasgow, 1, 2
Western brawl, 1
‘What??’, 1
‘What Goes On’, 1
wheelchair, 1, 2, 3
‘When You Were Sweet Sixteen’ (I love you as I loved you), 1
Whinhall, Airdrie, 1, 2
whirlpooling, 1
whisky, 1, 2, 3
White Light/White Heat, 1
Whitehouse, 1
Who, The, 1
‘Who’s Responsible?’, 1
whole damn world in mourning, the, 1
‘Why Does the Future?’, 1
wicker chairs (suspended from the ceiling), 1
wigs, from here on out lads, 1
wild artist types, 1
wild beehive, 1
will of God, the, 1
wilty blue vein, 1
window display(s), 1, 2
winkle-pickers, 1
Winning Post, Calderbank, The, 1
Winter, Edgar, 1
Wire, 1, 2, 3
wish fulfilment, 1
witch, 1, 2
witches’ coven, Katherine Park, Airdrie (reputed), 1
wolves, 1
woman, middle-aged, 1
woman, topless (with a machine gun), 1
women, bisexual, 1
women, unattainable, 1
wooden doll, 1
Woodlands Road, Glasgow, 1
Woodstock, 1
workers (least responsible), 1
working-class hardmen (with style), 1
worst kisser of all time (seriously), 1
Wreck of the Hesperus, The, 1
Wright, Frank (The Reverend), 1
written in eternity, 1
wrong (being that way in a housing estate in Airdrie) (associated difficulties), 1
xeroxed, 1
XXX, 1
X>Y, 1
Y, 1
Yatta, Palestine, 1
yes (biggest one going), 1
‘Yes/who/yes’, 1
yogurt, stale, 1
Young, La Monte, 1
Young, Neil, 1
young bodies, 1
young sweethearts, 1
‘Your name/is/Lucas/you/fool’, 1
youth’s curse, 1
Ypres (like lunching at), 1
Yule, Doug, 1
Zanzibar, Coatbridge (nightclub), 1
Zap, 1
Zappa, Frank, 1
Zen master, 1
zip, 1, 2
zodiac, the, 1
zombie flick, 1
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About the Author
David Keenan grew up in Airdrie in the late ’70s and early 1980s. This Is Memorial Device is his debut novel. He is the author of England’s Hidden Reverse.