If Jonás were here we’d have dinner in the Japanese restaurant a few blocks away. One of our customs, one of our favourite restaurants. The things we like. Oh, it feels so good to hear it in his voice, to hear that plural, which, along with the bed, is too big for me now he’s away.

By the way, I listened to another version of ‘Wild is the Wind’ as I was doing the washing-up. It’s great. A good song is so flexible, you can make endless new versions.

Tania called. After a while she said our phonecalls could be an AM radio show in the early hours.

I asked Jonás about scales in science: ‘For example, the nanometric scale makes things more reactive than they are at a normal scale, because the atoms it reveals can be used in more ways. Nanotechnology is exciting because it gives things more attractive properties than the properties we’re used to.’ In other words, today I ate a red apple, but on a nanometric scale the apple would taste better. I asked him some questions about that. Later, I got this message: ‘Forget it, my love, you couldn’t have a planet revolving around you because of the mass. One mass attracts the other mass, think of Newton’s second law. Forget the example I gave of the Smurf revolving around Gargamel.’

Meaning that something on another scale has different characteristics. Its gravity changes. This applies both to the dwarf on the block and to literature.

The ideal is always bigger or smaller than reality. The ideal is on a different scale.

Example: Jesus Christ is the notebook, God is the ideal. Because Jesus Christ came down among men, but we conceive of God as an idea.

Am I the idea I have of myself?