I'm Not The Guy To

But That Incessant Drive To Be Out There In The Literary Universe That Was Important To Me When I Was In My Twenties, Like Going To A Paris Review Party Or Whatever, That Seems Totally Irrelevant Now.

I Read A Lot Of 'the Canterbury Tales' On My Phone Last Year, Because I Was Cycling Between Three Different Editions, And I Needed To Have A Middle-of-the-night Edition For The Insomniac Reading.

My Suspicion Is That This Is An Unavoidable Human Dilemma, That People Will Always Want To Avoid Pain, To Avoid Those Who Are In Pain, And So Will Be Vulnerable To Anyone Or Anything That Seems To Promise Permanent Avoidance.

People Tend To Be Scared Of What They Can't See.

I Had A Talk With The President Of My Publisher, And He Averred That E-books Are Dropping Off . So I Wonder If The Potential Advantages Are Really Going To Happen As Quickly As They Ought.