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 " ... The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect. And as for that object, it depends on chance whether we come upon it or not before we ourselves must die."   -- Marcel Proust, Swann's Way    From Stepanie Heuet's 2019 graphic novel adaptation It's been twenty five years since I last dove into Proust. I was living in San Francisco. The Millennium was still a couple of years off. I had my first cell phone, a nifty flip device. Looking back, I see that I was living  in two worlds - at least. I stretched myself between a demanding Silicon Valley start-up job and being an over-age, doting, divorced dad to a precocious, late-in-life eight-year old.  It was no more harried a lifestyle than that of many single parents, mostly moms, but that didn't make it any easier. I had zero time for much of anything reflective, enlight...

I've got a problem which, though it's urgent, difficult, extremely annoying and possibly terminal (though for the book, not for me), l'm really rather glad to be having.  It's just like old times. I've blogged already about my two books for Walker Books, Ellen's People , set in World War 1, and Divided Loyalties , set in World War 2, and how, because of the two anniversaries, I'm putting both on Kindle this year as my contributions to the celebrations, if that's the right word.That's easy enough. But there's a third anniversary this year and this one really will be a celebration because it's the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The original covers. The superb photograph on the lower half of Divided Loyalties has to be changed for my editions because I'm not paying £376 for it. Back in 2008, when Walker published Divided Loyalties , I proposed  a third novel to complete the trilogy which would take us up to the d...