'the ladies talk on the terrace overlooking the sea until dusk, when it starts to get cool.'

horsemouth always forgets that he lent his copy of practicalities to howard and horsemouth is shocked to see the notes howard  made in it  every time he opens it.

<---------------'start with this' (underlined) 

points to the line 'the ladies talk on the terrace overlooking the sea until dusk, when it starts to get cool.' 

a paragraph on writing (as if it were improvisation) is marked in the margin, a question 'where do characters derive from?'. 

duras shows us an apocalypse. and it is an apocalypse in line with the demographic transition model. the birth rate falls, society ends.  

'it will be the greatest disaster ever. at first it will only be below the surface. a slight fall in the population. people won't work anymore. there'll be massive immigration to ensure that things get done. and then no one will know what to do. perhaps everyone will just wait for the population to dwindle away. they'd sleep all the time. the death of the last man would pass unnoticed...' 

yay last night a tv drama about the agapemonites (talking pictures freeview 82) in the series  victorian scandals (which ran for 7 episodes in 1976) . beloved starring shirley cain, tom criddle & peter egan.

there's been a frost overnight, in a bit horsemouth will go down the drive to retrieve the bins. he thinks he has to forgo the bell-ringing tonight (he thinks the cough has still got him).