222. Deborah Levy (writer) – it's those thoughts that are slightly awkward that need an airing
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:03.0 | Not much to it is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | I looked into the mirror for the first time since my accident. |
| 0:23.6 | Fuck off, I hate you. |
| 0:25.6 | I said to the middle-aged man staring back at me. |
| 0:28.6 | His hair had been shaved. He was a skull. |
| 0:32.6 | His eyes a shock of blue in his pale face. |
| 0:36.6 | He had high cheekbones, a cut on the cheek and on the lip. |
| 0:41.7 | His eyebrows were silver. Where have you gone, Saul? All that beauty blown to bits. Who were you? |
| 0:52.0 | What languages do you speak? Are you a son and a brother and a father? |
| 0:58.0 | Are you an acquisition? |
| 1:01.0 | How do you get along with your female colleagues? |
| 1:05.0 | What is the point of them in your view? |
| 1:08.0 | What is the point of yourself in their view? Are you there to do something for them, |
| 1:15.0 | or are they there to do something for you? Are they a foil for your ambitions or are you a foiled for |
| 1:23.2 | theirs? In what ways do you thwart, oppose, derail or support each other? Which ways do you vote? |
| 1:32.2 | Are you a good historian? Did you ever play football, cricket, ping pong? Are you curious about |
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