In the Sixties (short story)

In the Sixties was a short story published in the anthology Twelve Stories.

Plot
A man is waiting at King's Cross station for a train to a spiritual camp up in Wales. At the camp, the man and the other people at the camp are hypnotised by a mystic, who tells them that they have to go back to London and destroy Dr Oho. The man finds himself at Dr Oho's party in his home in Maida Vale, where a public call box was the centre-piece.

Joe Orton and Jamie the Highlander have sex, and Angus Wilson, Iris Murdoch, and Dr Oho talk about books, and the party wages on. Later on that night, the streets flood. The next morning, many of the guests go inside Dr Oho's public call box, and they and the box disappear, leaving Maida Vale silent. In the North-East of England, in a hospital in Jarrow, newborn Paul Magrs sleeps happily in a cot, rolling his eyes at his amusing dream.

Characters

 * Paul Magrs
 * Dr Oho
 * Iris Murdoch
 * Iris Wildthyme

Continuity

 * Paul Magrs first appeared in PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion.
 * Mida Slike first appeared in PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
 * Iris Wildthyme once regenerated into incarnations resembling Shirley Bassey and Beryl Reid. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)