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[wwidsith]

 Driving into work this morning was an unusually surreal experience.  I had Radio 4 on in the background, but most of my attention was taken up by the weird patterns of mist that were lurking in the fields on either side of the road, like duvets.  But then I slowly realised something very weird was happening on the Today programme, that bastion of

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[hobnobofjoy]

Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing! How truly bizarre... Some sick part of me is making me listen to it against my better judgment.

What I should be doing now is reading everything I can find about Peter Sawyer so I don't make a fool of myself in front of him in an hour and a half.

I just read a brilliant paper called "Peter Sawyer: an appreciation", but I can't find it now to show you think link. Basically, everything he did has been the definitive work in that field, and his biggest thing of all was the Sawyer Charter Catalogue...

Hmm...

[wwidsith]

Er...OH MY GOD. He wrote the definitive guide to Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire!! I have had it open on my desk for about the last 6 months, for some fiction I've been writing! He's a good writer, it was a surprisingly great read. If you get a chance, ask him what the score was with Gainsborough in those days! No one seems to mention the place before Cnut made it his capital.

[hobnobofjoy]

There's a treasury inside all of us... Christ!

He's written the definitive guide to most things! It's very intimidating... Of all the people I know, you were the most likely to be excited by this. You haven't disappointed! I'm meeting him for a cup of coffee, and then he's doing a seminar today and a lecture tomorrow. It's at 1.30 if you can get to Leeds? :)

This meditation thing is terrifying.

[hobnobofjoy]

Haha! He's not that useful for what I do really, but he told me some excellent stories about Gallbraith, Harmer, Keynes, and the WI... Thoroughly amusing!

[wwidsith]

Epic jealousy, not for the first or last time..

[vorgefuhl]

hahaha, I had to laugh at this because I stumbled on a similar interview with david lynch on NPR. he sounded like he'd taken a WHOLE lot of uppers, and kept saying, "It's so BEAUTIFUL!" and then something about the way consciousness was like a golf ball, or something.

it was the last interview I ever expected to hear from someone with such a gloomy ouevre...

[wwidsith]

I know! I adore his films, but in person he's just not all there.

[gnossiennes]

I listened, I laughed, I cried for the future of humanity.

[wwidsith]

You see, what you need to get through that cynicism is a good hard bout of meditation.

[gnossiennes]

My brain is too obsessive-compulsive for meditation. Alas, some of us will never transcend whatever it is we're supposed to be transcending. In yet another tragic sense, I will be... LEFT BEHIND!!

[wwidsith]

Gah, don't set me off! That whole thing used to drive me insane with fury, but now I've kind of come round to the idea. Because it seems that all the people who think they'll be carried off are the kind of people I'd quite like to see taken off the planet anyway.

[wwidsith]

Happy to oblige. On my part, I'm always disappointed when Australian males don't sound like Steve Irwin