et cetera

Australian Eastern Standard Time: 4:30am.
Words in Whole Damn Thing: 22,500
Words in Body: 14,000, becoming more ambiguous, some swimming in vague middle distance between eyes and screen, some intermittently disappearing and reappearing.
Words in Footnotes: 4,000.
Words in Bibliography: 3,000.
Words in Need of Home: 1,500, but that seems too little.
Words invented for special purposes: Several.
Hours remaining: 11.
Symptom of degree of insanity produced by sleeplessness: Have played same CD on repeat for 7 hours, heard different sounds every time.
Rambling emails sent in reply to Alex in Japan who also happened to be awake: 2
Empathy with Wittgenstein’s remark that metaphysics is at best disguised grammatical trivialities and more commonly simply nonsense: Complete.

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