Captain Birdseye

[caddyman]

Today I was privileged to share a portion of my journey into work with Captain Birdseye. He wasn’t dressed in his usual nautical blue of course as he has retired (the news would have it that he has died, but seeing is believing).

In his old age, Captain Birdseye has become a Dutch trawler captain, with one of those little flat caps that is half way between baseball cap and cloth cap. He has those nautical trousers that don’t quite reach the shoes and is now a proper grey, not the silvery white of yore.

I don’t quite know what it signifies, but here we are a mere three weeks since Merlin appeared on the same stretch of Tube Line. Fictional and mythical characters are beginning to join those from Norse legend -Creepy Swedish Guy, who I have already established is a troll -on the Victoria Line. I haven’t seen the Weasel for a while, but he’s less mythical than he is disturbed.

I wonder what’s going on; at some level the boundaries between the real and the unreal are disappearing. They are on the Victoria Line at least. Although why I should be surprised by what happens on the London Underground system is beyond me. I should be used to it by now.

Comments

[kt-peasant.livejournal.com]

You have read Neverwhere, haven't you?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I saw the TV series, but I've never read the book.

They didn't have mythical characters per se, did they? Just people that 'normal' people couldn't see...

[kt-peasant.livejournal.com]

Archetypes rather than Official Miffical Characters, though with the suspicion that said characters were just living under the latest of a series of names...