13:52:01 : Trying to condense 170K book into one paragraph. I am not good at this kind of thing, but I try. 15:00:53 : Perhaps not surprising that I have a whopping headache resulting from the attempt. 22:25:35 : Music to learn by Rutter, Stanford, Elgar, Tallis, and Britten. "It's easy," says director. "Ha!" says I. 22:27:01 : My sneaky back route through the city is blocked off for construction. Had to take alternate, but made it OK. Tweets copied by twittinesis.com