"I know which side I'm on: the more books I write, the more convinced I become that what we encounter in a novel is not selves, but networks; that what we hear in poems is (to use the language of communications technology) not signal but noise. The German poet Rilke had a word for it: Geräusch, the crackle of the universe, angels dancing in the static."

Nice post about using Scrivener for novel-writing, and a reminder as to how Targets work within it (which is handy for journalism).

...and I still haven't finished _Les Gommes_. Time to dip back in, I think; a shame Robbe-Grillet is dead.

"There are three basic ingredients in Dr No, all unhealthy, all thoroughly English: the sadism of a school boy bully, the mechanical two-dimensional sex-longings of a frustrated adolescent, and the crude, snob-cravings of a suburban adult." Wonderful 1958