I want to write a story on stargazers; on Byzantine men looking at the stars seeking meaning. I want it to rise from the pages of one document and intertwine itself with well known stories about other book-writers their interests and their occult activity. I want it to tell us something about how those few people sought answers to the mess which they experienced, as the empire in the eleventh century collapsed around them. I want it to be compelling and funny. I want to make it into a paper, I want to present it at some conference, and then go for dinner or drinks with my colleages, talk like those Byzantine stargazers about the mess we are facing in our own world, and feel as if we maybe hold the answers to all the problems surrounding us.