In the cafe it’s large or medium for the coffee. I say small. That’ll be medium then, they say. I shrug the shoulders. Do you get my point? Large and small are not indicators of absolute size; they are indicators of relative size. Medium has no place in that binary scale. They are asking me to participate in their hype. In some places it’s large or super large, which warrants a guffaw. These days you are drawn into the nonsense, whether you like it or not. It’s hard to get a tee-shirt without a brand blaring out your unwilling adherence. My adherences are scant. They’re mostly to myself. Even the things I do adhere to are not for blaring out to the world. I like Mahler; I like Proust; I like Man Utd (in theory). But why would I want to sell myself through connection with them. They can do without me. And I must do without them. I know their glory won’t stick to me. What would stick would only be desperation. I probably have enough of that about me as it is.

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