A gray morning fit for a daytrip to the stones and and spare shores of Orkney with Maggie Fergusson’s bio of George Mackay Brown. There’s a sad lack of colleges and universities (so, jobs) on the islands either side of the North Atlantic, but if nothing comes of the applications I’ve winged workward lately, I’ll take it as a sign to pack up the family and squat in the Knap o’Howar — student loan agencies can’t reach that far into the past, can they?

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