Good News Everyone! I Have Terrible News!

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It may surprise more recent subscribers to The Transom — there are quite a lot of you since the move to Substack, and for that I thank you! — to learn that I never pre-write this newsletter. As a creature of routine, it’s worked well for me for a decade. But occasionally there are mornings like this, where everything I was planning to write — in this ca…