Days pass unmarked. A new leak in the kitchen? The plaster seems to be melting from the walls. Rusty paste colour on my fingers. And the smell! Something is rotting, something dying there on the other side of the wall. Books: Duras’s Lol V. Stein, Henry Green’s Back, and now Loving again, after 15 years. A new office, straight out of Bela Tarr. A clean desk as I abandon my review for a while … what to write about now? Back to what I know, and hopefully back here, soon.