[…] on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

I've been spinning my wheels on this problem all week, with nothing to show for it.

There was a good-looking Argentinian couple standing in the open flap of their tent. They were aerialists, checking over each other’s harnesses, testing the strength of the metal grommets where the guy wires would be attached to them.

In answer to the question of what are the context-specific arrangements by which a plurality of interacting networks of participants with a range of conflicting identities and representations, might be able to negotiate some form of con-sensual agreement on a local planning issue, I propose the need for a transparently just process of negotiation.