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I've spent the afternoon transcribing one of my letters home from university. All afternoon -- it was seven thousand words long, plus sketches interpolated in the text.

I mention casually on about page seven that writing fiction seems to take on average an hour per A4 page; apparently at that age I was also producing stories at the rate of 500 words/hour. I wonder at what point I lost the ability to write with that complete unthinking facility? The young don't even know they are born :-(