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The Reclusive Genius Delusion
Show yourself to the world, otherwise your genius will never be seen.
Last night I had the most ridiculous dream, I was at West Ham stadium, the ex-Olympic, ‘London’ stadium, to see West Ham play a match, although I don’t follow football of any kind. After their most recent match there were pitch invasions and all kinds of unruliness, although nothing that compares to the unruliness that football fans unleashed upon the game about thrity years ago.
Immediately as the game finished, the players were ensconced in an 8 foot high circle of fencing which was covered with black drapes to ensure no-one could see in or out. It was very surreal and completely ridiculous, like they were entombed and it did little to quell the imminent pitch invasion, which did, of course, occur.
The stand-out moment of this dream happened as people were leaving, when the head of the food standards agency, Jason Feeney walked past and offered me a job working on a project of theirs, based on the quality of the work I had produced in my university course. Then I woke up.
What football team Mr Feeney supports and how he had seen my university work, I’m unsure, but this vision says a lot about me, about my desire to be recognised. It reminds me of a piece I wrote in December, which remains unfinished…
