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APPENDICES they can take on. Well usually they can because she is so clever at making it happen for them. But I think it is hard for lesser mortals to do that. [...] (Discussion about Bolton’s Salem lesson) CON: He comes at it in stages, while I am perhaps more likely to plunge straight in. It is interesting he does that thing with the doll. AB: He also gets the children to write all the superstitions on the paper. CON: He does quite a bit of that. Now I am much less likely to do that, because the thing is you discover what you are bad at. And that is always more important than discovering what you are good at. Now, I am very bad at running discussions. I usually overlap too many possibilities and then get very interested in what I’ve got to say. Then I get too many ideas, and then I just can’t handle the complications of it. 1 am trying to select and close down. But I can see why he did it. [...] (Talking about Bond) CON: It really got me thinking about the use of objects that was very interesting. Your example from Eleven Vests was clear. I was thinking of Hedda Gabler. The book is the heart of it. And the moment when she burns it is like murder to me, I can hardly bare to watch it. You could see it as a trajectory of talking about the book, him bringing his book, his book that he doesn’t think much of, bringing his manuscript that he does, him losing it, her husband taking it, her taking it from her husband, she burns it. The book is almost reborn as all the plans that they have. She kills herself and the book lives. + 266 +
