Rejected Prologue.

This is the old prologue to something I'm working on at the moment. I quite like it, but the tone of voice is all wrong, and part of the reason for putting it in the so called public arena like this is to place it effectively out of reach for any further tinkering or assimilation within the current project. In the first part the experiences of the two protagonists alternate on a sentence by sentence basis, a device which was supposed to foreshadow the dual narrative of the first section (now rejected). The second paragraph is a more conventional trawl through the pool of their supposed childhood memories. So it goes.

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