This is a time for wondering as well as its first cousin, pondering. As everything changes on a daily basis, I hear people saying things like, “Just when I thought it was getting back to normal”, or, “How am I supposed to live?”, as yet another draconian ruling is made that seems to solve nothing except cause more distress and economic ruin. It is becoming ever more clear that those setting the rules are shooting in the dark, perhaps prompted literally by darker forces (take that as you will, but I do a lot of exploratory reading and viewing). It seems that there are two camps: those who follow the rules and perhaps even believe this virus to be as deadly as the Spanish Flu, and, in the other camp, the so-called conspiracy-theorists (an absurd term clearly ascribed by camp one to cover anything that doesn’t fall in line with their narrative!) who believe a wide range of things from the “sensible” end of holistic health, to the furthest, Blade-Runneresque end of a global re-set. Social media of course is, as ever, a tapestry of voices that are as multi-coloured as Joseph’s famous coat. We are literally dazzled by this constant array of, to quote the bard, voices “full of sound and fury”. if you know the rest of that quote then mentally add it now! Yes we now all know – and if we don’t we haven’t been engaging with any social media – that George Orwell’s vision is apparently coming true. Most writers of what we call science fiction, have predicted events or states (in all senses), often well into the future at the time of writing. But when that future meets the present, we see how visionary many of these writers were. I recall watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in the late sixties when it dovetailed somewhat with the moon landing. Both are indelibly stamped on my memory, as I felt something momentus had happened. It was like dreaming a fabulous or insightful dream where one actually says to oneself from within the dream “I must pinch myself so that I remember it.” Invariably that works. One sort of knows when a truth – however and whatever type of “truth” – shows up before it’s happened.