Having reassembled the CPAP mask and adjusted its straps, I've caught up on my sleep - lots of energy today for a change, although I still slept in and took a while to get started. This afternoon was spent out, drinking buckets of coffee and working on multiple writing projects - part of which work was re-reading bits of The Duel by Giacomo Casanova:

[Of kings] "... even their slightest gesture is carefully examined by the Argus-eyed onlookers; and their words, however little they are susceptible of such treatment, are subject to a hundred different interpretations."

The other book I'm re-reading is Black Beauty, which I read as a small child, and which introduced me to the idea that fashion is a bad thing. I distinctly remembered the story of the accident caused by horses made to wear blinkers because they were "stylish".