My daughter played this for me in 2019 and said she thought I'd like it. I'd owned it since 1986. I didn't tell her. She was so pleased with herself. I let her have it.

I taught macroeconomics for thirty years. I knew the First World War the way an economist knows it. I know it differently now. Six episodes. Three months of bike rides.

Forty-eight hours. Twelve days of cycling. Grant spent most of his life failing at things and then did one enormous thing and then failed at most things again. I found this more comforting than expected.

I've owned this in four formats. The first was a cassette from 1982 that I played until it stopped. I'm learning guitar now, which has nothing to do with what Miles is doing here, but I listen differently than I used to. I still can't explain what I'm hearing. I've accepted that this is the point.