Dateline: Sacucci Honda, Middletown RI, 25 June 2005
Spending day packing boxes. Will start on BFA manuscript tonight, but have to help my spouse out by getting house more in order before I leave again. Not worried on manuscript timeline, because Mark and I have through the 5th, according to Neil. Putnam's production people want it back by the 29th, but Neil got us the extra time (production people are always incredibly unreasonable!).
Larger reason for dawdling: too much time will push me to start dicking around with the text too much, and I don't want to. Shoving in a lot of recent news stuff is not what I want to do, because I write for the ages, not the fall of 2005. I want to read the text mostly to identify arguments I really want in there but have neglected to include up to now.
Damn Saccuci did my oil change so fast, I barely had time to pen these posts!
■ The next step in the Sino-American economic relationship■ Iran: connecting and disconnecting at the same time