richard skelton seems really cool. and robert macfarlane, and nan shepherd and all the artists in landmarks and i get turned on by what they do, but also wistful as i'm not doing suchlike things. i'm reduced by circumstance and maybe design as well, i feel the passion at a remove, i feel my own passion writ small in the flat city, circumscribed by nature in the cracks of man, by the dailiness of my daily walk. but the language, oh, that opens my little world.