Progress is slow today. On the other hand, it depends how you look at it. In terms of centimetres, OK. But in terms of time: think of that. I"m down through maybe a decade of earth. Ten years in a day, that"s not so bad. On good days, when I"m stronger and don"t have to keep stopping after each scrape, I can do twice that.
I think I must get somewhere soon.
I blame the birds. That"s a bit unfair, chemicals are the main culprit here of course, but we can"t just let the birds off. They played their part.
Seagulls and crows told the story of my early years. They are there scattered like punctuation throughout the narrative; sets of black-and-white quotation marks perched in opposing pairs above the lines. Black and white, land and sea, introversion and extroversion: always negative imag
