In the Antechamber of Death the walls are lined with rows of plastic chairs, held together with little chains (probably so no-one can steal them). Or rather not the walls but the canvas and tubular sides, for the antechamber is not a room but a narrow, khaki-coloured tent, stretching miles away down the road well beyond the “Shop-till-you-drop” supermarket and the “Buy-till-you-die” pharmacy. Both are just shutting and their lights going out. Everywhere is dark. Except inside the tent, which is filled with a faint cream-cheese-coloured glow like thousands of fireflies and silkworms strolling amourously through a cloud of candyfloss on a summer’s night. Lire la suite