For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

[...]
If it’s like this in the morning, we’ll go to the doctor.
(Of course, in the morning, it’s like this.)
[...]
(In terms of surrogates, the durian fruit certainly looms as the
paragon. But in this instance and at this stage, a satsuma or
a clementine (whichever is tarter) is probably more apposite.
Something about the texture as analog for some rather
graphic skin condition
– but tempered by the
alien colour; a colour
seldom found in the
body, but one that,
when thrust into
that imaginative
context, might
imply some par-
ticularly effusive
relations: iodine
and mould, most
notably. The lurid
orange lichen
POPS on the side
of the headstone.)
A podgy sphere. ( )
[...] In the middle of the southern Pacific Ocean, a thousand
feet below the surface, what is believed to be an alien spacecraft
is discovered after a ship laying transoceanic cable has
its cable cut and the United States Navy investigates the cause.
The thickness of coral growth on the spaceship suggests that
it has been there for almost 300 years or THEREABOUTS. A
team made up of marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin (Sharon
Stone), mathematician Dr. Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson),
astrophysicist Dr. Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber), psychologist
Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), and a member of
the US Navy (Peter Coyote) are tasked with investigating the
spaceship. The team (along with two navy technicians) are