That transient global amnesia has much in common with a casual dream, when we become something else to protect us from real life.
So, in little more than a fortnight, she banged out a play about a feisty Salford girl, Jo, who is left alone by her flighty mum one Christmas, goes to bed with a transient Nigerian sailor, gets pregnant and is lovingly tended by an effeminate art student.
The big party machines insist the polls are wrong and that, when the media focus sharpens on Norris, the surge he has enjoyed will be as transient and temporary as the Indian summer we are currently enjoying on both sides of the Irish Sea.
People living in London are very transient and many are from other countries.
Related: Conference makes case for ending detention of female asylum seekers The last decade has seen an oft-repeated pattern – a disturbing investigation by journalists or a damning report by a charity or independent inspectorate, generating a transient flurry of interest in those who are locked up out of sight.
When asked whether £8,000 was what he would charge if he had, he pointed out that the fluff animals were pretty transient creations, held together with static electricity and hairspray, and he couldn't imagine anyone offering that amount.
Officers are paying particular interest to Felixstowe's transient population, among them the 4,000 lorry drivers that use the A14, the artery road linking East Anglia to the Midlands.
Naomi Jacobs has written a book, Forgotten Girl, about the time she went to bed – her final exams for a psychology degree approaching; in the middle of a break-up with the father of her son; worrying about the success of her business – and in the night was struck with transient global amnesia (TGA), a form of memory loss brought on by stress.
When properties aren't maintained, it drives down an area, which then attracts more transient people with no stake in the community.
Even the most transient byelection victor enjoyed one party conference as the centre of everyone's attention.
"People caught drinking in dry zones are fined, and we are talking about transient and homeless people with drug and alcohol problems," he said.
