Thursday, May 16, 2019

a big gap in writing

My health has made writing difficult, daily severe headaches and other chronic pain issues.

We did manage to get to Italy in 2018 but that's my last long journey.

A greeat pleasure to have unplanned conversations, chance encounters, with people in Italy far from touristworld including in Arezzo with Pier Ferruccio Rossi who just came up to us to talk in a phone shop. Here is his good humoured articulation of being an eighty year old poet.



I am about to have a week in hospital for ketamine infusion managed by a rheumatologist who has done this for fifteen years. See this too. Dreaming of writing more often afterwards.

Meanwhile I invite your attention to this excellent paper on north Asia by Gavan McCormack, on how well states measure up and have capacity for essential change in these turbulent times.

Gavan is a committed and practical academic, as here, out on prohibited waters at Okinawa, for background see the paper linked from previous paragraph.



or if you prefer terrible recordings by eminent people in Britain of longer account of last year's book...

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