Richard Froude

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Practical Math
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Scene One
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An analogue clock. 10am in the gymnasium. You may begin writing now.
Portly man occupies leather seat inside a glass museum case.
Fade over Ordinance Survey map of the British Isles.
In the gymnasium an invigilator paces down rows of desks.
Clichéd executioner, hooded, swinging an axe.
A seismograph begins slight undulations.
Then levels off.
Three-carriage diesel locomotive pulls away.
Library footage: Thatcher speaking in the Commons.
Library footage: Thatcher holding up three fingers outside 10 Downing Street, 1987.
An Assyrian image of Midas.
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