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It&#8217;s moving too damn fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/frood\">Frood<\/a>, used to me seeing things, gets up and has a peer. His usual expression of &#8220;Here we go again&#8221; is replaced by a fascinated grin.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, on the rough ground behind our block of flats between us and the old gas storage structure (so <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Brentford_Trilogy\">Robert Rankin<\/a>), an incredibly bright green thing is darting around. I can&#8217;t judge how far away it is or how big it is. 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