Perk me right up! Please let us know what you think of the Verne. I loved I Know Where I'm Going! and Skye and the Hebrides are places I've long longed for. I spent the night on Skye during a far-too-brief December sojourn in Scotland in 2003 and was very moved, had a deeply trance-forming walk the next morning that I later wrote of in an essay on ancestral memory for Black Clock 4. Have you been there? Are there other works (of art or of explication) about that region of the world that you are particularly fond of? I've not yet properly searched out such works, but will mention the presence of a lovely, as yet unread book on my shelves called Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides (HarperCollins, 2006), written and illustrated (quite beautifully) by David Yeadon, which I strongly suspect I will love when at last I turn to it.

Please forgive my delay in answering your question about Inception; the work on Little, Big has been particularly intense in recent weeks, and the heat has been a keen thief of sleep.