was one bright, blood red layer, that you would only ever catch fleeting glimpses of via the large cuff of her sleeve as she moved round the stage. This I found unbelievably beautiful. And it conjured up ideas of the dry, paper-like pure skin, that beneath it, housed the dark wet, blood and guts of the innards. ... Two opposites coexisting in harmony. The "Pleroma" map, hidden on the inside, again was something I wanted to do from the very beginning. I love maps, I've got some great books on maps, one in particular called "You Are Here, Personal Geographies & Other Maps of The imagination" by Katherine Harmon. It has lots of old beautiful and unusual maps, like ... "Falls of Eternal Despair" and "A Map of the Various Paths of Life" ... all these maps are of the inner "geography." So it made sense for my map, which is of a similar nature, to be hidden at first glance, yet still discoverable. And I also love that classic children's book tradition of having a Neverland-style map at the beginning of the book. SelfMadeHero were great about all this stuff, never once did they try to dissuade me from these, probably quite expensive processes. And I'm really grateful to them for that because I think it really makes the book. The map inside The Nao Of Brown's dustcover Nao of Brown 's been a long time on your plate, with your workblog for it starting in late 2008. How