3.00 am. No more, please! The outcome is as I’d anticipated, but not as I’d wished:

In my opinion, those parties that didn’t deserve to win didn’t and did. 9.30 am. An excusably late start. I’m resigned to the being moderately distracted by the noise of the fallout and political analysis today. To begin, a little resourcing for ‘The Talking Bible’ project. A very reasonably priced B-stock, DJ turntable had come to my attention.

Back to the book proposal. Auto-suggestions:

• Determine what are the core questions.
• Stand far back from the subject.
• Then, turn around. What is behind you?
• If the overriding or encapsulating idea cannot yet be determined, then wait. Either you or it are not ready to embrace at present.
• Write in a different room, font, tense, medium … but keep writing. If you push something hard enough for long enough, it’ll budge.
• Write in complete sentences. Notes are provisional, unstructured, and often discontinuous or without relational coherence. In short, they’re too easy to formulate, and insufficient in and of themselves. A sentence is a committed thought.

1.35 pm. Following lunch and my advice, and, on discovering a relationship between religious sounds and visions, my thoughts gained some traction. Things began to move.

2.30 pm. Periodically, throughout the afternoon, I contributed photographs — loosely associated with the passage between inside and outside through a window — to Miranda Whall’s Facebook project. She has set it up to support one of our PhD students, who’s presently travelling through a very dark valley:

6.20 pm. Practise session 1. 7.30 pm. I wrote my internal examiner’s report for he PhD art history thesis I’d been reviewing. My early morning electioneering is now taking its toll. A cup of hot milk and a bowl of cereal for you, my lad! Then, off to bed: