i hope i don't speak too soon, but a shape is forming. something - unless it's just late-night over-exertion of the mind, which it can't be, cos i've been too lazy to think hard - seems to come right. i'm beginning to have an idea of where things go. my essays don't have structure, but i think - i hope - sometimes they have plots, and that's better than structure.

and, i think, i've revised my big idea. it won't be a two-part invention. it'll be about the three-part invention. it's more awkward but riddles, i've decided, don't come in two but three parts. the third part is what makes it all unfair.