Tom Beckett tagged me with this meme: "I now propose a new tag: Things which one has read and has been influenced by which are not confined to those paper-bound vessels of the printed word we refer to as books. Let's call these Non-Books. Or maybe Impossible Books. Or Limen Books? It's up to you." --J. Bradshaw Could be lots of things but here's some: raking light the emptiness of afternoon at home, while sick, punctuated with fugitive neighbourhood sounds, machinery buzz, cars, birds (this comes from childhood) the smell of jasmine in september spring beginning to cook a meal, bringing the ingredients together, to the oil the smell of rain on summer streets the beginning of so many old songs (too numerous ...) - that strum, tick of percussion, bass rumble the birds outside our back window the sound of the mail arriving, even if it will be crap or bills watching the sky, clouds, weather from a work desk the smell of railway stations breeze on skin a hand on a bo...