ONE INDICATION THE YOUNG SEEM TO LEAD THE OLD TALES WHICH UNFOLD BIND IMAGES OF MOUNTAINSIDES HOLLOWED OUT AND BURROWED WITH TUNNELS. COPULATIONS WHICH CAN ONLY BE VAGUELY INIGINED FROM RUMOURS OF COUNTRIES -STEREOTYPES- JUSTIFYING AND NULLIFYING PRESENTIMENTS. SLUMPING INTO A CHAIR BUILT FOR FOUR. SHIRT-TAILS FLAPPING IN THE INVISIBLE WIND, HERE IS A GENTLEMEN FROM THE OLD WORLD. NOT QUITE BUTTONED UP AWARE. WITH A LIZARDS WATCH-AND-WAIT SENSIBILITY. OF ALL THAT HAS PRECEDED HIM. THROUGH WHITE PAPER TONGUES FLAPPING IN DARKNESS IN THAT SAME BREEZE. THE DISTRICT OF A BROTHER FOR HIS SIBLING. TELEGRAPH TO A WRESTLING MATCH IN AN UNKNOWN LAND WHERE A SHIRT IS RIPPED AND A ONCE FELLOW SUBJECT IS WAITING IN THE GARDEN. THE STRENGTH UKEXPECTED. THE GRIN THE MOST HAUNTING THING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED BACK TO NOW: TO COME TO NOW. MOVING SWIFTLY ALONG THE BUS. HE IS THE WITNESS TO THE CUMULATION OF A LIFETIMES DREAMS WHICH WILL EXTEND ANOTHER LIFETIME. WHERE IS THIS SOUL. GLIMPSED IN HALF-FADED BADLY PRINTED RECORD-SLEEVE INSERTS? HIS DESK. IN TIME. WOULD BECOME MY HOME - THE ONLY ONE I EVER HAD. THE ONLY BATH-HOUSE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A BATH. THEY SAY THAT CYANIDE SMELLS OF ALMONDS. BUT IF SMELL IS THE MOST POTENT AID TO MEMORY, WHERE SHOULD WE BE IF THAT POISON WERE THE LAST THING TO ASSAIL THE NOSTRILS? YEARS LATER. WE WERE ALMOST KILL OURSELVES BY MEANS OF INNER SPIRALS EXERTING TOO STRONG A HALF-NELSON. TWO INTOXICATION THREATS MADE ON THE TELEPHONE FOLLOWING AN EXPENSIVE LAST EVENING IN A CITY I WAS NOT AWARE I WOULD RETURN TO. TO A PERSON WHO WAS TO COME TO LIVE BEHIND FIRE DOOR. WHAT ON EARTH HIS GRANDPARENTS MUST HAVE THOUGHT IS NEITHER MY CONCERN NOR PRIVELIGE TO KNOW. WE FELL TOGETHER, I WAS TOLD, SMASHING THE QUARTER-FULL RECEPTACLE OF OUR DOWNFALL. AND EARNING A NICK-NAME IN THE PROCESS. LATER TO COMMIT GROSS FOLLY WITH ONE OF THE WITNESSES TO THE ENTRAPMENT -NOT APPROVED BUT TOLERATED- ALL QUALITIES AND QUANTITIES AS YET UNKNOWN. THE REVERSE OF INTUITION. THE NEXT DAY WORTHLY OF A FILM TO BE SHOWN AT SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE WRETCHEDNESS OF THAT BEING WHILE LEARNING OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, HASTENED TO DEPARTURE. THE LOOK OF TOTAL AND UTTER LOSS, AFTER SOFTNESS FOLLOWED BY CRUELTY -THE DEEPENING OF THE ABUSE OF TRUST AND THE MALLEABLE QUALITIES OF THAT SAME SOFTNESS - SCEAMING AFTER A LOPSIDED HUNCHED BACK. THE TRUE BORDEDOM INDUCED BY A SLAVE ON ITS MASTER. THE EYES MADE OF STEEL. THE DEADLY ACCURACY OF THE STATEMENTS ALLOWED OUT AS THE PROGRESSION OF THE STATE ADVANCED. THE SENTIMENTS GROWING AT AN ALARMING RATE, FILLING THE ROOM WITH A PERVERTED, STICKY AROMA. BEING LIFTED UP, NO MORE THAN A COLLECTION OF MATCHSTICKS CONNECTED BY WIRE AND STRING. SWEEPING THE TINY PIECES OF GLASS FROM OUT OF THE BED IN THE ROOM WHERE LIGHT NEVER ENTERED, AT THE FAR END OF THE CIRCULAR CORRIDOR. THE RETURN BACK TO BASE REQUIRING THREE TIMES AS MUCH SHOE LEATHER EXPENDITURE THAN NORMAL. DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN? WOULD YOU, TOO, TRY TO PRETEND YOU WERE UNAQUAINTED WHEN THE TORENTS OF THE WARM GLOW OF HUMANITY BURST FORTH INTO THE LOVE OF ALL MANKIND? THE EXPLANATIONS IN THE HEAD NEVER VOICED DUE DO SNEAKING REALISATION THAT THIS TOTAL INDISCRIMINATION AND LOVE, GENUINE AND CARE FOR ALL, IS THE ONLY PATH WORTH TREADING. THIS TOO, THE EXPRESSION OF THE USE OF ALL THINGS TO REFLECT THE SELF SO THAT IT CAN BE CONSIDERED AND ULTIMATELY DISSOLVED. ALL MATTERS AND SUBSTANCES HAVE THEIR FUNCTION WITHIN THE DIVINE ORDER, AND TO KNOW YOUR PLACE AS WELL AS THE PLACE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU IS THE BEGINNING OF THIS JOURNEY. THE REMOVAL OF BUFFERS, ONE BY ONE, REVEALS ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS BY EXAGGERATION, MUCH IN THE WAY A CARICATURE CAPTURES MORE OF A PERSON THAN A PHOTOGRAPH, AN X-RAY OR THE WEIGHT OF THE REMOVED BRAIN. A RUINED CAMERA OVERSHADOWED BY A MOON-LANDING, DRAGGED INTO THE PRESENCE OF THOUSANDS OF TENTS AND THE RECENT REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF ONE WHO WAS ATTACHED TO SOMEONE VERY SICK, AND VERY WELL-KNOWN. STORIES ABOUT BLACK DOGS. ASSIGNMENTS MADE IN ODD LOCATIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO SPEAK TWO OCTAVES LOWER AND FOUR TIMES SLOWER THAN ANYONE ELSE. THE CURATING OF A BODILY FUNCTION. LISTENING TO AN OLD FRIEND SPEAKING A LANGUAGE ONLY SLIGHTLY COMPREHENDED WITH A HEAVY ACCENT, CONSCIOUSNESS OF THAT PERSON SLIDING AWAY LIKE A CHILD ON THE LAST CURVE OF A SLIDE IN A PLAYGROUND SO THAT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING REMAINS OF HER AT ALL. THE STRENGTH OF PURPOSE SO STRONG AND THE LINK SO GREAT THAT EVEN AS THE DOORS WERE SLAMMING AND THE UNCONSCIOUS FLIGHT UNDERTAKEN. THE COMPETITION OF THE CYCLES WAS SAFELY IN THE BAG. HOW TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BARREL, NOT TO SCRAPE IT, BUT TO GO OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN IT? ONE OF THOSE BUFFERS WHICH HAS TO BE OILED AND THEN SQUEEZED FROM BETWEEN THE CARS AND THEN LEFT ON THE STATION PLATFORM TO BE WAVED GOODBYE TO. IS THE ADMISSION OF THE LINK IN THE FIRST PLACE WITHOUT BURYING THE BONE TOO DEEP. NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE REACTION OF OTHERS WITHOUT THIS QUALITY, ALL INTELLECTUALISM ASIDE, THE STRONG INNER PRUDE REMAINS. SLEEPING ON THAT CAR, LEANING HEAVILY, BREAKING NO BONES. WILL WE EVER REMEMBER THE ADRESS OF THE PLACE WHERE WE LIVE? THREE ICHTYOMANCY 2016 KM TO BOIL AN EGG. TO CROSS A ROAD. DRIVING ACROSS ANOTHER CONTINENT, ITSELF AN UNEXPECTED MASS OF CONFIRMATIONS OF THE TINIEST RUMOUR AND RECEIVED REFERENCE POINT, THE PACT MADE, AND AGAINST ALL OTHER EXPECTATIONS OF OTHERS, CARRIED THROUGHT LIKE A GOOD PUNCH, INHABITING A WORLD PART SHADOW, PART NOTHING, PART NEARLY NOTHING, PART GLITTER, PART OIL, PART BLOOD, PART FEATHER, PART SLOW, PART SLIPPERY, PART DESPAIR, PART DESPERATION, PART LUDICROUS HOPE, PART LUMINOUSITY, PART HUMILITY, PART CRUELTY, PART BLOOOY-MINDEDNESS, PART RAZOR, THE MEANS FOR EXISTENCE ARE ALMOST AT HAND BUT NEVER REALLY THERE IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES. THE WARMINGS ARE NOT HEEDED, AND THERE IS A KIND OF REVULSION THAT THIS TEMBLE FAITH HAS BEEN REBUTTED. THERE WAS THE SECRET GLIMMER OF HOPE THAT THIS FAITH MIGHT WIN THROUGH, AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BREACKTHROUGH WE ALL HOPE TO SEE IN OUR LIFETIMES. THE FUTURE WE PROMISE THAT OUR UNBORN CHILDREN WILL INHERIT. ALL THE LIES, MISERY, DIRT AND SPIRIT-CRUSHING WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN IN VAIN. BEHIND THAT DESK, A HUGE BAG OF HAMMERS DROPPED TO THE BOTTOM OF A WELL THAT I HAD THOUGHT WAS WITHOUT ONE, THE STRANGE NUMBING PAIN. THE CALM DETATCHMENT OF INFIDELITIES, THE SMILE OF CONTRITION AND UTTER EVENTUAL RETRIBUTION. A KISS AND THEN OFF TO SIGN THE PAPERS. ALL DISSOLVED, THE MARBLE PILLARS ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY ERASED BY A SHOWER OF THE VINEGAR THAT HAD MATURED FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG AND YET, FOLLOWING WHAT SEEMED A SOMEWHAT HALF-REALISATION OF THE LOSS. THE EDIFICE ERECTED IN NO TIME AT ALL, AND SCALING NEW HEIGHTS. NO PLANNING PERMISSION APPLIED FOR TO THESE OFFICES. THE ALMOST IDENTICAL MIMICKING OF THE MATERNAL INCIDENT, AND IS THAT IN THE BALANCE, TOO? THE ANSING OF THE XPRESSION INFLUENCED FROM WITHIN. AND SEEMINGLY NOT WITHOUT, EXERTING THE OBVIOUS AND SELF DECLARED EXAMPLES. MORE LIKE FRIENDS WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERS MOTHER TONGUE. A HINT OF THE OTHER. HOPING THAT THE TRANSGRESSION WILL NOT BE DETECTED. AT HOME, THE NEWS DOES NOT TRAVEL SO FAST, SUCH IS THE SELF-SATISFACTION OF THE PARENTS THAT ALL IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN BORDERS. BUT THE REFUGEES MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF SUCH AN ENVIROMENT, DUE TO THEIR VERY LOW NUMBERS. THEY ARE NOT YET A MASS, EASILY BLOTTED OUT OR SHOVELLED AWAY INTO THE COAL CELLAR. THEY HAVE NAMES, PERSONALITIES, AND TONGUES. TRUE, EVENTUALLY THEY CAN BE ADOPTED, AND OF COURSE, THE YOUNGER THIS OCCURS, THE GREATER CHANCE OF SUCCESS WITH INTEGRATION. BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS TRACES, AND AT SOME POINT, IN ADULT LIFE, THE SEARCH FOR THE BLOOD-TIES BEGINS. WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT EMANATIONS WHICH STILL PROCEED FROM THE MATERIAL, IF WE CAN CALL IT SUCH, IS THAT OF SUCH BLINDING SIMPLICITY THAT THERE ARE ALMOST AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF METAPHORS FOR IT. CURRENT STATUS: YOU WALK INTO A ROOM YOU ARE SLIGHTLY FAMILIAR WITH, BUT DO NOT KNOW WELL. YOU KNOW, ALTHOUGH NO-ONE IS PRESENT, THAT SOMEONE, NOT FIVE MINUTES AGO, PEELED AN ORANGE IN THIS ROOM. FOUR INK I CANNOT COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE WISHED TO LOOK AT THE BLUEPRINT. OR AT THE SCRIPT. I COULD, I SUPPOSE, IF I REALLY WANTED TO, BUT A) WOULD I UNDERSTAND IT IF I WERE ALLOWED ACCESS TO SUCH MATERIALS. AND B) EVEN IF I COULD, WOULD THIS IN SOME WAY IMPROVE ANYTHING AT ALL? THIS IS THE WALL OF FIRE. THE BURNING IRON BALL THAT MUST BE SWALLOWED, THE SECOND WIND WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER 100 METRES AHEAD. FIVE IRRIGATE THE CLASS HAS BROKEN UP. AND THE STUDENTS ARE NOWDISPERSED QUITEWIDELY. A FEW ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO HANG ONTO FAIRLY TOUGH THREADS, BUT EVEN THESE FRAY AND ENVENTUALLY SNAP AFTER SO MUCH PULLING. AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THIS IS INFINITELY MORE DOMMED THAN THE ILLUSORY STRAIN OF DISTANCE. THE WORK THAT IS NOW UNDERTAKEN WILL NOT ENDURE ANY MORE, DOES NOT HAVE A SALARY ATTACHED TO IT, AND WILL ONLY BRING TROUBLE WITH THE EMPLOYER IN THE END. "THE THINGS WE HAVE NEVER HAD REMAIN; IT IS THE THINGS WE HAVE WHICH GO." AND THE ESSENCES OF THESE BEINGS ARE LIKE THE TRACKS OF AN ANIMAL IN OTHERWISE UNDISTURBED SNOW. AND THIS IS A CLOSE AS IT IS POSSIBLE TO POSSESS THEM. YOU CAN FOLLOW THE SPOOR. BUT WHO KNOWS IF YOU WILL EVER CATCH UP, OR IF THE SNOW WILL MEET BEFORE YOU DO, OR EVEN WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL IT IS? TO ACCEPT THIS IS ENTER INTO ANOTHER PACT, BUT THIS TIME THE SELF; AND ONLY THE NATURE OF THE PACT CAN MAKE ITSELF KNOWN. IT CAN MANIFEST, BUT THE IMPLANTATION OF THE SEEDS WITNESS TO THE DEAL, IT WOULD STILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO SAY THAT ONE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN THERE. THE IMPLEMENTATION LEAVES EVEN LESS THAN A TRACK, MERELY A SORT OF IMPLICATION OF COMPLICITY. AND EVEN THIS IS ONLY AN AUTOMATIC CREATION OF THE WITNESS WHO CAN AT BEST, UNDER INTERROGATION, MERELY ENUNCIATE AN OPINION. BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. GET IT OUT OPTREX®. SHOUTING AT ENDLESSELY REPEATING MIRRORS. (I WONDER, AS AN ASIDE, EXACTLY HOW LONG IT TOOK FROM THE INVENTION OF THE MIRROR TO THE DISCOVERY THAT ONE COULD BY MEANS OF A CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT OF MORE THAN ONE OF THEM SEE THE BACK OF ONE'S OWN HEAD? JUST A THOUGHT.) WITH THE ERECTION OF TOTEMS THAT REFUSE TO INITIATE OUTSIDERS. THEIR MONUMENTAL ASPECTS ARE IMMEDIATELY POUNCED UPON FOR TRACES OF MEANING. BUT JUST AS BEFORE, THE EDIFICE IS ONLY A RESULT. A LEFT-OVER. AN EXCRETION OF THE ACT WHICH INFORMS AND IMBUED IT WITH BEING. IT IS NOT ACCURATE TO REFER TO IT AS A BODY, RATHER THE SKIN OF A FRUIT WHICH ROTTEN AWAY, LEAVING ITS SEEDS TO TAKE ROOT IN THE GROUND, OR BE EATEN AND SHAT OUT INTO IT. EVEN THIS IS TO TAKE THE IDEA OF LIFE A LITTLE FAR OUT INTO THE REALMS OF THE CONCRETE, FOR JUST AS IT IS WITH ELECTRICITY. WHICH WE USE, HARNESS THE POWER OF AND DIRECT IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS YET REMAIN LARGELY IGNORANT OF WHAT IT IS IN ITSELF, WE ARE SIMPLY CUSTOMERS, AND WHILE WE ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. WE VERY SELDOM READ THE LABELS. NOR CARE ABOUT THE AESTHETICS OF THE PACKAGING. WE ARE SELF-BINKERING SEPARATORS AND COMPARTMENTALISERS, UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO ENTER INTO THE ACT OF CONSUMPTION AS A PROCESS, NOT AS AN ACT OR SERIES OR THEM, RATHER LIKE COMMAS IN A SENTENCE. WHAT WE EMPLY OTHERS TO DO CHILDREN'S PARTIES, PULLING RABBITS OUT OF HATS AND PERFOMING TRICKS WITH DIVERSION OF ATTENTION AND SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, WE APPEAR TO THINK WE ARE NOW CAPABLE OF OURSELVES, TO OURSELVES. HOW IT HAS COME TO PASS THAT WE THINK WE ARE CAPABLE OF FOOLING OURSELVES ABOUT SOMETHING WE KNOW ABOUT IMPLICITY IN CONTARY TERMS IS MYSTEFYING, BUT TOO MANY EXAMPLES EXIST OF THIS ACTIVE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-DECEPTION TO DENY ITS EXISTENCE. IN ORDER TO MAKE THE LAST AND ONLY POSSIBLE USE OF THE MIRROR -BELIEVE ME, THE LIGHTS BEHIND THEM ARE GOING OUT ALL OVER THE WORLD- IT IS NECESSARY TO ASSIST THE MIRROR IN THE ACT OF ITS OPERATION. ONE MUST PROJECT ONTO THE ACT, AND IN SO BEING REFLECTED IN NACISSIC FASHION, ALLOW THE ACT OF TRUE SELF-LOVE TO MERGE AND BE IDENTIFIED WITH THE ACT ITSELF. BY LOOKING INSIDE, CASTING AN IMAGE OF THAT WHICH IS FOUND OUT TO THE REFLECTIVE SURFACE OF THE DESIRED ACT AND HAVING THAT BOUNCED BACK WITH THE ACCOMPAGNYING LOVE WHICH FOUNDED ITS GENESIS, ONE CAN GROW, HOWEVER LITTLE IT MAY BE. IT WILL BE OF QUALITATIVE STATUS. THIS METHOD IS THE ONLY WAY TO PROCEED; TO HALT THE PUSHING UPSTREAM OF OTHER METHODS AND APPROACHES IN ORDER TO BE CARRIED ALONG IN A TORRENT OF EVER-RENEWING PILES OF WAVES. SIX IMMENSE "...HOW CAN ONE DESCRIBE THE PHYSICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF A LITTLE GIRL SEATED AT A TABLE WITH LEFT SCHOULDERS RAISED AND HER ARM STRETCHED NONCHALANTLY ACROSS THE TABLE, HIDING HER CHIN BETWEEN THE MUSCLE OF HER UPPER ARM AND HER BREAST SO THAT THE PRESSURE OF HER ARM AND THE COUNTERPRESSURE OF THE TABLE FLOW FROM HER ARMPIT, SLIP PAST HER ELBOW ON TO THE SLIGHTLY BENT WRIST, HARDLY NOTICING THE SLOPE OF THE BACK OF THE SLEEPING HAND BEFORE COMING TO REST UNDER THE TIP PF THE INDEX FINGER IN A LITTLE GRAIN OF SUGAR. SEVEN ICE WITHOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF LONGING, OF THE UNATTAINABLE, IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO BE CONTENT? STASIS, I PROPOSE, AND ITS SUPPOSED COMPANION HOMEOSTASIS, ARE NOW OUTMODED CONCEPTS THAT HAVE BEEN USED FOR TOO LONG TO SUGGEST A FINAL FULL-STOP IS A PHYSICAL REALITY, WAITING AT THE END OF THE LIFE SENTENCE LIKE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE AN ONCOMING TRAIN. THE MAIN TENDENCY TO ACCEPT THESE PROPOSITIONS AS UNALTERABLE TRUTHS COMES FROM THE FACT MOST PEOPLE NOT BESET WITH LIFE-THEATENING CIRCUMSTANCES DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS THEY ACTUALLY WANT. WHEN THE ENGINE THAT IS THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DRIVER IS USED TOWARDS THAT WHICH IS DESIRED, BUT THIS ITSELF IS UNFOCUSED AND VAGUE, THAT IS PRECISELY THAT WHICH IS ATTAINED. IT IS RATHER LIKE GETTING IN A CAR AND TRYING TO TAKE LOTS OF ROADS AT ONCE. TO GO DOWN INTO THE MORASS THAT IS THE SELF AND EMERGE WITH A MAP AND RED LINE MARKING THE INTENDED COURSE REQUIRES COURAGE, AND ABOVE ALL, SELF-HONESTY. TO DELIBERATE DRIVE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THE DESIRE, THE NEED, AS IT MAY WELL BECOME, IS FRAUGHT WITH PERIL, AND DOOMED TO FAVOUR, LIKE ALICE TRYING TO GET THE TOP OF THE HILL ONLY TO FIND HERSELF WALKING STRAIGHT IN AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE AGAIN. WHEN ALL THE DESIRES ARE HAMESSED, AND THIS CAN BE DONE CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND DIRECTED TO DESCENDING INTO THE AFOREMENTIONED MORASS, THEN WE HAVE THE MOST FINELY POLISHED SURFACE UPON WHICH TO REFLECT. THESE SURFACES ARE MORE LIKE SKINS; THEY ACTUALLY CONTAIN A WHOLE MASS OF SUB-STRUCTURES BENEATH THE SURFACE, ALL INTERDEPENDANT AND ESSENTIAL TO THE WELL-BEING OF THE WHOLE. WHAT I HAVE REALISED IS THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN THIS ACTIVITY, WHICH I ONLY THOUGH POSSIBLE THROUGH THE CONVULTIONS OF LANGUAGE, AS MANY SUCH THEORIES ARE. I CANNOT PROVE THAT MY THINKING THIS DID NOT CAUSE THE MATERIALISATION, YET I CANNOT PROVE THAT IT DID, EITHER, WHAT THERE IS TO BE KNOWN IS THAT RATHER LIKE DISCOVERING THAT THE NEIGHBOURS ARE ACTUALLY ALIENS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY, THERE REALLY ARE GURUS ON EVERY STREET CORNER. EVERY SUPERMARKET AISLE IS TEEMING WITH SAVIOURS, PACKED TO THE GILLS WITH WISDOM INCARNATE, GLORYING IN THE FACT THAT AT LEAST EVERY THIRD ONE OF THEM IS WALKING FOUR OR FIVE INCHES ABOVE THE GROUND. THAT I MAY ACTUALLY COUNT ONE OF THESE PEOPLE AS MY DEAREST FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR IS SIMPLY CAUSE FOR IMMENSE JOY AND COMPLETE CESSATION OF WRITING.