Invisible Hands revealed

Here at Riddled we are acknowledged experts in the field of rehabilitating disembodied hands. However, the contract to retrain the Invisible Hands of the Market -- signed with the Department of Corrections, Erasers and Condign Use of Wite-Out -- is not progressing well. They are showing no interest in adopting any form of socially-productive labour.

Part of the problem is the whole not-being-seen business; these hands think they can get away with anything. We tried flinging around a few bags of flour to cling to the hands and expose their escapades -- this worked so well in The Saliva Tree -- but the characters of The Saliva Tree did not have to deal with Evangeline Van Holsteren, head barwoman at the Old Entomologist, who looks askance at flour-related activities.

So instead we have taken a leaf from the orb-photography people's book and invested in motion-detecting infra-red cameras around the place.
Well this first photograph is not a good look: the hands are all flashing gang signs and spelling out rude words in British Sign alphabet. I can only hope that the Department of Corrections, Erasers and Condign Use of Wite-Out does not catch wind of this. The scene does not greatly resemble the feel-good artist's rendition that featured in our tender for the contract.