RATHER PRESUMPTUOUS (April 12, 2020)
How do I spend my quarantine in godforsaken Motovun? Most of the time I read my writings accumulated over forty-five years. As they are on the World Wide Web for two decades already, I can access them whenever and wherever I wish. The rest of the time I stare at my paintings accumulated over twenty-four years. They grace most of the walls of my house. Relishing my quarantine to the hilt, I have even considered a piece of advice for my fellow humans, many of whom have ended up being quite disturbed by the unremitting peace and quiet of their involuntary isolation during the coronavirus pandemic: do as I do, and you will relish your quarantine, too. But I have pulled back just in time. My advice would have struck quite a few of them as rather presumptuous, I reckon. I jotted all of this down only to lay bare my unmatched modesty one more time.