ABSTRACT
The fictional construction of experiences is considered to be a legitimate and persuasive form of research reporting (Clough, 2002).This chapter uses the device of fictionalised representation to orchestrate together the words from conversations with several people, extracts from my memories and reflections, to tell another story of some encounters during the research journey. It fractures different conversations, splicing words – those ‘lightning-flashes’ that ‘open a void, a moment of silence, a question without an answer . . . where the world is forced to question itself ’ (Foucault, 1965: 287) with my thoughts and feelings and the imagined thoughts of others. I have used a different print font to represent each character; you may recognise some of the characters.
