Realist Magic Liveblog 12

77 500 words. I'm working my way through the book, putting in clear signposts. It seems as if this book is about something after all! It's a funny stage, this. You are involved in very detailed arguments that are local to a page or two. And you're involved in looking at the big picture and trying to make the whole thing work for the first time reader. There's a strange disconnection between the two.

I'm also about to start the fourth of four books that I wanted to read, Analytic studies of causality. I'm taking notes on those and incorporating them as I go. They are hard to get through in the same way that eating dry Weetabix is a bit of a chore. I oscillate between boredom and anxiety, so I guess I may be clinically insane.