Steve Bruce is planning to spend £5m making Alan Hutton a “permanent signing”, in as much as anything can be said to be permanent in an endlessly revolving industry, and subject to the notion that human perception itself - or what Virginia Woolf called “moments of being” - is by its very nature shifting and ephemeral and experienced only through the solipsistic illusion of a fixed point of narrative consciousness.

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