A book … hardly a book. The magic words: 60 pages. Yes, 60. Then the book can find a reader in the bookshop, inexpensive – in large type, perhaps, but small enough for your pocket. Which calls for an intimate reading – for the intimacy of a reading which would be the correlate of an intimate act of writing. I have the pleasant dream of writing a book in a single creative gesture – in a sweep of a week, a fortnight….