Update: yes, I know about the tilda, but could not persuade the software to show it. The tilda, I’ve always said, means that there’s an “n” at the end that isn’t written but which you don’t pronounce — if you’ve ever heard Portuguese, you’ll understand what I mean.

Sorry about the silence — I spent yesterday being human (the High Line in NYC is all it’s cracked up to be!), and then had a hellishly busy day today. If I had more energy left I’d plunge into the next stage in the European crisis; the moving finger of instability has now reached Portugal, with the government, of course, proposing to cure matters with More Austerity. But it will have to hold until tomorrow.