isolation
Today's news is tomorrow's history.
Always think that I'd keep unread newspapers, just in case there's time in the future for me to read them; wait till you see a seemingly innocuous stack of clutter gradually piling up in your room, then you'll realise there's no chance to review old news again--'tis wise to simply throw them away. Hours of working on the dissertation results in scant time for reading other stuff, though I did manage to get a glimpse of a picture of Blair + Witch (notably the Blair Witch Project, hehe) posing amongst a bunch of Gormley's tiny men, which is currently exhibited in China. (Bear a resemblance to our Terra Cotta Warriors?) And that she also belt out a successful tune of Beatles' "When I'm 64" in front of Tsinghua University students. Actually a rather nice touch amidst their thorny questions.