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[diotina]

What might it be like to encounter a radically different culture and country entirely through its literature? To relinquish all preconceived notions held about it, and instead allow its words to tell you of the meaning of its existence and how it came into being, to make those words a talisman against the simulacrum of perceptions that flood your

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[dryad_wombat]

Aha! You're teaching at the snme university as I am now? I often trundle down to Craiglockhart for teaching. The hospital museum is rather beautiful, I think.

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[diotina]

Sara! This is Padmini! I thought you knew! :)

[dryad_wombat]

Padmini! But you're at Stirling still! Or ... have we got you back????????? (hope hope)

[dryad_wombat]

Oh alas. I just saw the date of your entry - 2009!

I was all excited for a minute thinking we had you back in our clutches :)

[diotina]

nonono, dear! That entry was written years ago....I've been very tardy on the lj front :).

good luck with the you know what -- your idea sounds ideal! xx

[dryad_wombat]

I don't have massively high hopes :) - I don't have an A***-funded project, but I think I fit in under the other eligibility criteria. Giving it a whirl anyway, but might be knocked out before it's read.

What do you think you'll pitch?

[diotina]

I'm not sure, frankly--in my opinion I don't really have a chance as Byron or digital tech & publishing are both quite overdone on radio 4 at any rate...am going to have a think about it this weekend and see whether it's worth it. Do have a lot of other stuff on my plate though, so I might sit this year out and hope they run it next year.

[dryad_wombat]

Both great topics though! .. and the fact they are well-represented surely shows there is a continuing appetite for them.

I know what you mean though. it's hard to juggle all the things we have to do.