mr pride has a little notebook in which he pens down mementos, private thoughts and plans. it is crammed full with his spidery tiny handwriting. some of the text is blotted out where his pen leaked, most of the pages are crumpled and torn. the black cover is battered and mended with tape here and there.

on one page you might read:

rocks+ducks
throw one at the other

with a circle drawn around ‘ducks’ and an big arrow pointing from it towards ‘throw’, and another going from there to ‘rocks’. while in the margin is some pencil scribbling saying:
? but how to catch the duck first???

on another page is written:

if
1+1=2
then
2+2=3
3+3=4
etcetera

from which follows
2+4=8

mr pride is very secretive about his little book, he keeps it hidden underneath one of the cusions of the sofa, and whenever he wants to write in it he makes sure there is no one in the room, opens the door and peers into the hallway, locks the door, hides the key underneath the sofa and takes out the booklet and stands into a corner, with his back towards the room, leaning over and crouching over the little thing. he often chuckles when he is working in this way.