Not been sleeping great lately, so this could get a spin.

And almost always a surprise to hear a cover of TLC's No Scrubs later on in the record...

Alternately, Godard's Breathless - À bout de souffle - is on Talking Pictures 🎬 ▶️ #spoiltforchoice

Great news. Something to look forward to.

And, in turn, albeit conversely, can a city be said to have been/being responsible - at least providing the tools and inspiration - for writing the writer?

Can we ever truly 'know and understand' the places we write about (and sometimes for), even with the accumulated knowledge built up over time? Would we want to? That cities are places of change, dynamism, is grist to the writer's mill.

In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered, and the melancholy and relief of knowing we shall soon give up any thoughts of knowing and understanding them.

~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Something in the vicinity of imagined, invented - and, indeed, re-invented - cities. From Felicien de Myrbach's declaration about Liverpool to Marc Auge via Italo Calvino's Invisible and Darren Anderson's Imaginary Cities... 🏙️

Small breakthrough made yesterday I think. Hopefully free me up a bit with the next lot of writing ✍️ #amwriting

Wrote a tiny bit more today, in-between second year tutorials (and during the odd no show - tsk!). A chapter of the PhD is slowly coming into view. Consider a sigh of relief breathed.