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I f you are reading this you are very likely to know that Oxford Dictionaries ‘declared “post-truth” as its 2016 international word of the year’.

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[and with apologies to Mr Cave] “I get lucky/I get lucky” sings the voice: this morning always to-day (was it yesterday?) as the day dawns slowly yet impossibly quick- unstoppable. We get lucky.

H ow little did I know about Lazarus’ true feelings waking up a decade later dead tired & unable to digest the universe before him. A backward glance does not reveal the past but the load on neck & shoulders & the eyes, the eyes blinded by the light. ¡Levántate, Lázaro! the accent lacks the strength required to lift the dead weight towards life.

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T here is nothing like peer review to infuse in you the fear for writing. One has to take the plunge one morning and write for no other reason but the dew. Whatever this is it is not autobiographical: things do not have to be avant la lettre; things can mean something else not referring to the speaker, nor to you, dear reader, of all people. She did not marry him- she was someone else, and he was simply her invention.

I have done revisions to this post since publication. [I don’t have time. What is this about? My view is that altmetrics are not merely tools for the measurement of  online attention but tools that can help us discover the literature that is being tracked as mentioned. I used the Altmetric Explorer as a tool to discover articles about inequality.