excursion

                                      In a kind of
                                           reverse Proust—
                              degree of difficulty
                    2.7 on the Hans
                           Richter Scale—I
            am waiting for 
                    the tenth & final 
                                   volume of The 
                        Grand Piano to 
                    appear before
                            ordering the 
                          complete set 
                                            & then taking 
                                         to my bed to
                               spend the rest
                                               of my life 
                                 reading them entire.