QUIRKE: A Day in the Year of a Nobody

Nicholas Quirke was sleeping in a strange bed and wrestling with his equilibrium. It was a working day in an amazing location and the air was resounding with the sound of the names he was dropping. He had plans and they started with a haircut.

Nicholas Quirke was fleeing a night of over-indulgence, traveling back to London and into the a world of video, booze and knitting where once again sleep eluded him. Episode 52 in A Day in the Year of a Nobody. Dedicated to Dee Sadler

Nicholas Quirke was not expecting to have the day he experienced, which started with dreams, saw him overdressed, disturbed by art, swim, connect with family and friends and ended with the crushing of a dream.

Nicholas Quirke was enjoying spending money he didn’t have with friends and celebrating a Wimbledon final that finally put his hero centre court. A crush made him blush and a film’s stereotyping rankled leaving him despairing over Gay rights.

Nicholas Quirke was brooding over his lot; working, missing watching Wimbledon and the ultimate episode of a TV series, until his spirits were uplifted by an unexpected party.

Nicholas Quirke was teetering on the edge of madness, wallowing in sadness and pleading poverty. Yet none of this stopped him from reading, socialising, seeing a movie and taking a taxi home. He relied on the kindness of friends but their subsides came at a cost to his mood.

Nicholas Quirke was entertaining friends in Brighton on 14th June 1981 and enjoying showing off some the delights of his seaside town to the visitors, prompting memories of his youth and a moment of self disgust, though the cost of putting things right made any repair prohibitive.

Nicholas Quirke was in full spendthrift mode when taking a break from College with Kim; enjoying a day of food, film and dance in the West End. The day encouraged him to reminisce over appearing in a movie with Dustin Hoffman and to lose himself in watching his idol Nureyev.

Nicholas Quirke was surviving on very little sleep and felt himself to be reacting to the whims, moods and desires of his friends and largely ignoring his own. Somehow this selflessness didn’t hold him up when it came to his TV viewing.

Nicholas Quirke was not enjoying being an artists model as his life became completely embroiled with his brothers; from creativity to socialising. His seeming altruism betrayed a selfish and egocentric streak which had him bemoaning his wasted days.