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number? There’s nothing for it but to pass the night on the rocking chairs in the airport lounge. W. takes his copy of Spinoza’s Ethics from his man bag, the only thing you can do at times like this. —‘Spinoza teaches you to affirm everything’, W. says. ‘Affirm, affirm, affirm, that’s what Spinoza says’. But W. can’t affirm the copy of National Enquirer I buy at the kiosk, nor the Twinkies I stuff into my mouth. Somehow I always stand in the way of his beatitude.