Driving occupies most of my attention. light beams fall in ghostly tubes, landward, seaward, sear through strips of pale city. This morning I have driven along the coast from East Lothian. Now the sewage hills at Seafield pass through the slits in the air-conditioning, turn the air.
Amidst the daydream, in swoops a gull, dipping jagging over a cliff of car showrooms, bending upward, looping, leaning over, in air, as if it were a bed; drifting from sight.