But in the midst of the research company's gloomy forecasts, Forrester's chief executive George Colony offers a brighter thought: As painful as the developing downturn may seem, it isn't another 2001.
The menu sparkles with bright thoughts, not all of them quite so confrontational.
/ Deciding this, we can forget those times / We sat up half the night / Chockful of love, crammed with bright thoughts, names, rhymes, / And couldn't write'].
He believed, or at least suspected, that Miss Sullivan and I had deliberately stolen the bright thoughts of another and imposed them on him to win his admiration...
The idea for The Landlady already existed at that point, and three days later he again wrote to Mikhail saying that the proposed Saved Sidewhiskers would be shelved as he wanted to introduce a new style, and that "more original, lively and bright thoughts were asking to be put on paper".
Holding that very bright thought in mind, he slurps his coffee and heads out into the black and white London afternoon.
(Not my brightest thought).
And he lets him think bright, dangerous thoughts and speak good lines.
"What bright minds and thoughts are now left without the chance to thrive?
The silence that, for mischief, loves night screech, fox cry, lonely weeping, welcomes this cold whisper blowing residuum, like shallowing impressions of a nib that moves to shape a word that leaves the page a brighter blank, the thought unspelt that makes the after-image of each pang of headlights half a mile along the road to Buteland in the shot white dark a memory of less and less.
