Yesterday I added a page to the front end of my Residua website, the title of which appears in a short menu next to every piece of writing bearing a title and a date. Wedged between a short biography of mine and website links, it contains my publication record. Entitled “Publications,” it covers only non-professional works. That is, published works that have nothing to do with my academic career. This record was a part of the original design of the Residua website in 2000, but it did not make it into the new design early this year. At any rate, something peculiar came to my attention as I was working on the new page: between 1980 and 1996 there is a huge gap in the publication record. This period corresponds to most of my second bout in the States and the first years of my bout in Britain. These were the years when most of my attention went to my professional works, mainly papers in scientific journals, but also a number of books. The hiatus from 1981 to 1995 is almost painful in retrospect. Although I kept adding to my magnum opus in that period, too, my attention was definitely elsewhere. Or, as it turns out, nowhere.