21 01 2025

 Editing getting easier, quite like what I've written. numbers up and down, as I cut and recall other stuff. Thinking of doing an extra chapter on immortality but too depressing - really, who want to live forever?

19 01 2025

 Much editing - damn thing turning into a pamphlet. I know size isn't everything but if it seems slight, erm... a mighty tome has more weight. OK enough banter and of course all the most useful and influential books are short... but having to hack out hard-won info grates on me. Just because its only peripherally interesting.

Probably time to do some housework and take a rest. Maybe print the thing out, if I can get some more ink.

17 01 2025

 Nearly, nearly done...

14 01 2025

 -so I gallop on, nearly 60,000; made rather smug concluding remarks which will have to go. Lots has to go, really. I fluctuate between marking a thesis - in which case, rewrite - and thinking of readers who'll find it helpful. In which case, rewrite without quite the level of chat.

Bit late to muck about v. may as well get it right.

09 01 2025

 Over 50,000 and padding out some ideas - still scared of braving the Maturana/ de Chardin marriage I mean to conclude with (unless something changes, again)

Such good fun. So very much easier than painting.

04 01 2025

 Up to 45 thousand and ready to embrace the difficult biology bit, though not quite; editing and inserts to go. Much more comfortable with it as Jim (Prof R.J. Hankinson) cast his eye over it and apart from suggesting more Descartes and why not Nietzsche? was most helpful.

Mind you, he only saw the index. He will hate the tone.

31 12 2024

 Going to prise myself away from the comfort of the computer today, finish the last Nature Diary drawings and photograph the lot, as a reflection on the year.

Not looking forward to it - book now over 45 thou words and galloping towards unsuspected conclusions -but I guess it'll wait, whereas the years' turn halts for no man.