I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My Google-fu is strong.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

Anything for gold and experience.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.