I’ve been closeted in the British Library, enjoying long days reading which I haven’t done for years, and freedom from the telephone and interruptions, the benefit of collective single-minded concentration on what is essentially a wholly solitary and impersonal task, with the strange experience that some of the people I knew as readers thirty years ago are still there thirty years later, unchanged:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
It must be good to be back in the wonderful British Library, without the benefit of research assistants etc.
Whatever happened to Maya?
Maya has gone freelance, too !
I’m beginning to find that ‘collective single-minded concentration’ is addictive. It was great to see you Charles (35 years?); your blog keeps me entertained when my mind wanders – thank you.
And very nice to see you, too ! Yes, maybe 35 years…. Charles