Wow. I was excited to see you all after the summer hiatus but, to be honest, I hadn’t expected the full house that turned up. Lovely to see you, and happy for some new faces.

The Swimmer is ultimately quite a bleak tale but initially, it’s a fanciful romp . Ned turns up (clad only in a pair of Speedo trunks) unexpectedly at some well-to-do neighbors who are all suffering from “I drank too much last night” scenarios but are delighted to see him again (it’s been a while). He informs them that he has realized that he can “swim home” via a network of his neighbors’ pools. He accepts a drink, and continues on his way, diving into their pool, and heading on to the next. As he gets nearer to his goal of “swimming home”, his neighbors are increasingly less happy to see him and, at the Biswanger’s pool party, the proverbial shit hit the proverbial fan, after which it was all down(stream) from there for Ned. Tragically brilliant.

Igor turned up with herring, but alas, no Borodinsky was available. Next week!