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Useful, diverting, entertaining links from the digital jungle.

Quick inspiration

'I do not like spinach, and I am glad I don't - because if I liked it, I would eat it, and I can't stand it' - From Flaubert's Dictionary of received ideas

What's going on?

What are you listening to at the moment?

An A-ha mash-up

If you have Spotify (download it, it's free and a very useful way of listening to music) you can listen to a playlist of what I like at the moment

What are you reading at the moment?

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

What are you thinking about at the moment?

Everything.

What are you working on at the moment?

A painting of a raven and a pomegranate

And noodling about on the guitar

Returning to the arrangement of words for novels, like a shipwrecked sailor ordering the pebbles of a beach to spell out SOS - or perhaps 'wish you were here', to passing planes.