It's been difficult to write today. It's been difficult to even think

coherently. Construction work is being done on the apartment directly

below us. I don't know what they're doing but the sounds of hammering

and dragging and drilling have gone on for hours. Sometimes, the whole

floor shakes. Sometimes, the sound moves from the floor below to the

ceiling above and it sounds as though a very big, very dead body is

being dragged across it. I suppose that walls are… Continue