The Life of Henry Fuckit
(1950-2015)
THE TEXT
1 He makes his entry
2 Wages of sin
3 Ingachini
4 He considers the life of a dilettante
5 The Ingachini cave
6 Henry decides to assume a new identity
7 Loss
8 Aesthete in slip-slops
9 The new name comes to him
10 He learns of his non-existence11 A portrait of the dilettante as a young man
12 Mr Welgemoed helps him on his way
13 Conducted South
14 A prize heifer
15 Getting to know Cape Town
16 He becomes acquainted with Ivor Hopper
17 Henry's first fuck
18 Henry starts work at the CU
19 He contracts existentialist nausea
20 Rats. Big rats21 He decides to resign for the sake of his health
22 The departure of Mr Snow and Mr Fuckit
23 Two dreams
24 Polonius crap
25 Talking of armed robbery
26 Curiosity leads him into a gun shop
27 Ugly, unnerving, depressing
28 Bedford Street
29 A member of the upper class
30 Henry differentiates between two types of suffering31 She makes the earth move under his feet
32 End of an era
33 He takes a room at the Olympia Residentia and applies for a job at the Dockyard
34 From Kalk Bay to Arles, with assistance
35 Henry's first day at the Dockyard
36 He and Alf Whitehead get to grips with fundamental reality
37 Dear Kaye
38 Learning the ropes
39 Henry meets Harry and is told about the existence of Oxyaston
40 A preview41 The relative importance of passing time
42 They visit the Dockyard's own subterranean conduit
43 Driven to distraction
44 Bergson prepares Henry for his expedition to South West Africa
45 He misses his train, hitch-hikes to Springbok and meets Mike Berkin
46 Twee meide met doeke
47 Encounter with a camel
48 Dinner at Grunau
49 Crash
50 Train journey - Part One51 Henry's sermon at Aus
52 Train journey - Part Two
53 Luderitz
54 He finds accommodation with Frau Klee
55 The Oxyaston ducts aren't where they should be
56 Peeping Tom
57 Not a good place to read books
58 Voyeur's reward
59 On the point of giving up he makes an important discovery
60 Premeditated déjà vu61 Review
62 Back at the Dockyard Bergson is pleased with the success of the expedition but Henry's psychological condition deteriorates
63 Henry becomes violent
64 He becomes a Verification Officer and converses at length with Ivan Schroder
65 Henry commits adultery
66 Quantum mechanics + dead cats = big thrill
67 Bergson is subjected to another monologue
68 Caught in the act
69 Henry's comforters
70 He quits the Dockyard71 And moves to 13 Palmerston Road, Woodstock
72 Weak white flesh
73 At the Franz Kafferklapper Gebou he tries to draw unemployment benefits
74 Ordeal by libation
75 A significant nightmare
76 Hollow victory
77 Dear Henry
78 Henry commits a capital offence
79 Philemon the Facilitator
80 He applies for the job of porter and becomes an orderly81 He serves a three-year sentence
82 Bergson gives Henry a briefing
83 Pretty pussies in Pretoria
84 Unsolicited mail
85 The expedition sets sail
86 Into heavy weather
87 As the storm worsens a learned discussion is interrupted
88 The captain, the carpenter and the dilettante
89 Henry is thrown overboard
90 Alone and adrift91 He reaches the Vital Isle
92 Face to face with Gudd and Sutton, Henry learns the terrible truth
93 The end of Oxyaston