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Today's book-type discovery: a new translation of a novel I hadn't even known Jules Verne wrote. The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), 1883. It appears to be non-genre, a romance, and to involve some of the same geography as Powell and Pressburger's "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945) This should be interesting.

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Have you been there?

Never. Ireland, yes; Scotland, no. I would like to someday.

Are there other works (of art or of explication) about that region of the world that you are particularly fond of?

I will think about that question. A lot of folktales, I think; folksongs; Michael Powell's memoir of making The Edge of the World (1937), which he originally called 200,000 Feet on Foula.

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.

No apologies necessary! I hope the weather turns enough for you to sleep soon.