and you're at a bus stop and you're both slumped as though you've completely run out of energy. you look sort of befuddled and baffled. i come back to this point — is that the way you are feeling today? you'd make a very good art critic. i love the description of it. it's marvellous. but is that the way you are feeling? we are involved in thought transference. so, like a writer does words that will put thoughts and feelings into the readers, so these images have to transfer thought, things that you can't put into word, exactly, you can put in pictures. they're very delicate examples of human existence, things we all know. as we step out of the front door of number 12, fornier street, we're stepping not out into the east end of london, we're stepping into a french street built on a roman cemetery, which, when we were students, was the yiddish—speaking district. we are five minutes from the dissidents cemetery. we have a mosque at one end,