Off to Liverpool with Eudora

I've had this book on my book pile for ages.

Short stories are good for short journeys, I feel, so Eudora Welty's Thirteen Stories are going to accompany me to Liverpool tomorrow. I am going to the Tate Art Gallery to a meeting organised by the Wellcome Trust on funding in the science and the Arts. I'm not quite sure where I am at the moment - teetering on the edge, perhaps, about to fall in.