The Sixth Day.

So, there’s wasps and then there’s bees. There are gods and there are mortals. Does immortality breed conceit? Arrogance? Decadence? There is the universe, and man, and God inbetween. Beaches, lakes and oceans pacify man because they are more timeless than he is. Does God get bored on a beach? God doesn’t have the clumsy inconvenience of flesh to distrct him in his pursuit of creation - whether creating it, cataloguing it or merely sitting within it and drinking tea. A man will stare for hours at moving water but rarely for anything more than a few minutes at a moving ant. I went on holiday and thought a lot, but only discovered only one real, truly original fact:

It is so hard to write a novel without a laptop.