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Loading ...Friends one and all, The Neocrats has become a little quiet recently and I take responsibility for my own weakness. Alas the rigour of professional life has drained me to the point where posting has become a challenge. However, I have now undertaken a new project and would like to tell you about it. I am writing a book. I have been writing this book since 2001 but the rigour of professional life had drained me to the point…blah blah. However, the clouds have passed and an opportunity, a window in time, has arrived. I am seizing the opportunity and it feels like a sort of retirement is approaching because I fully intend that this will be the last book I ever write. I assume that it will not get published. And if this happens (again!) I will never want to spend the effort in putting together another draft. That’s it, if they don’t pay, I will shut it. And so yesterday afternoon I began typing my re-draft. I write some of the re-draft by hand and then type it in. I began listening to Beethoven’s symphonies as I worked. I got through No. 1 and wrote a particularly happy bit througout the first mvt. of No.3. And then something interesting happened. The prose turned sadder and I typed the word ‘despair’ as the Funeral March got started.
Please, if you don’t know the Beethoven symphonies you need to get started. Today!
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The rigours of professional life are, alas, a drain on that creative underbelly that awaits its next moment. I know what you are saying. I also apologise for my lack of neocracy recently - for the same reasons. I promise, if it is any consolation to anyone anywhere, that I shall be back. Like you, back to the Neocrats and back to my slowly unfolding stories.