Oliver's day

Friday morning, the day after the headline, the bookshop, the back table shelving returns while Miriam makes the first pot of Earl Grey. She asks what he is reading, and he tells her the Moleskine is closed for now, and the closed-for-now is the first time the Moleskine has been allowed to be closed in a month, and the allowing is the door he walked through last night, and the door is open. He walks home. The question of whether he can do it twice is the question of August, and August is the Edinburgh fringe, and the fringe is a month, and a month is thirty-one days of doing it twice, and the doing-it-twice is the work he has not yet started, and the work is the next season.