Not that anyone is asking me to say, but that I’d say it anyway, if it occurred to me to do so. For all my remarks here have been unsolicited, the casual as well as the serious, the brief as well as the protracted. And yet even though this is a diary (or a project that uses the tropes we’ve come to recognize as belonging to the ‘diary,’ as a genre, for its structure), so that there isn’t much need to censor or qualify the thoughts that present themselves to me, I do make a habit of selecting from among them those that would seem to have the clearest association with the entries that precede them.