histologic laughable. after all, he says to himself, he has written other novels, hasn't he?e was up to those task, why shouldn't he he be up this point? that's known as a rhetorical question. he is not interested in the obvious answer. injured, each book presents its own set of unreasonable challenges and riddles. attack that he has solved the last set of riddles doesn't mean that he will be able to solve this one. this might be a genuine rubik's cube. he could work on it forever. it could defeat him. in fact, when he thinks about it, he is overdue. and rather than admit this, he tells himself that everything he needs is at his disposal. he has all the time, he requires. and he has experience and maybe even some talent. nevermind that the shoulders of the literary highway are strewn with rocks. eloquent testimony to the fact that time and experience and talent are not always enough. you also need luck, and what is luck thing is for? running out. and yet, here it is. that old kate magic, and a schedule, a new novel. to make it, i had to delude myself. and i hope you won't thi