Simon Perkins' Lurgy

“And now, an extra programme for students of Module DD305: Simon Perkins’ Lurgy. In this lecture, Professor Ronald Beardyweirdy examines Simon’s subconscious mind, and asks whether the increasingly strange and surreal nature of his dreams is the sign of a deeper, more chronic psychological condition…” It’s September 1974, and listless teenager Simon Perkins still hasn’t gone back to school. Suffering from a debilitating and unspecified “lurgy”, he drifts through daytime naps on his grandmother’...