Duration 2.27

Shey Fallenby's occupation in the VUE Directory is listed as a ship's plumber, retired, or ephemerologist. Either way, Shey drove a green van in circles in Tooley Park Nurseries because, being a VUE hallucinist, he was not officially permitted to drive on a public highway. Shey's dual occupation stems from a bridge conversion. He's a member of the San Luis Rey Society, a popular club of some two thousand VUE victims who were struck by the VUE's malevolence of bridges over running water. Shey holds membership-card number 19. Shey's bridge was the swing-bridge known as the Centre Walk over the Treadle Canal, Liverpool.

Shey was walking to work on the midnight shift on the evening of the Violent Unknown Event when the warning-bell rang and the bridge shook as though struck by a barge. Shey doesn't remember the next fifty-six hours, but apparently he got up and kept on walking, not to the shipyard, but to the portside where he stowed away, and three weeks later turned up in Hamburg.

Five weeks later he was in Vienna, tearing up English newspapers, rearranging the items, and pretending he was Tulse Luper. Shey Fallenby and Tulse Luper have never met but they do share a physical resemblance. Tulse Luper paid for Shey to return to Liverpool and has since collected Shey's collages, bound them into a book called, at Fallenby's insistence, "Tulse Luper and the Centre Walk", and has presented it to the VUE library where it is catalogued under "Hobbyist of the Absurd" and its author, Shey Fallenby, is described as "a lover of crowds, an anti-vivisectionist, a speaker of Glendower and an eclectic opportunist who elusively remodels his personality on an everchanging succession of heroes".