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You can probably tell from the babbling

broke of conversation in the background that we have moved away from the answer.

But to replace just as feel with egos.

Sorry, that came out as egos.

Literary ambiance, I got that.

All wronged, no.

You did. I have another go at it.

We have come for a place that is ripe with the wif,

the faint wif of middle aged people who perhaps put on antiperspirant first thing this morning.

The temperature has been up and down like, oh, what's its pants all day and is now actually quite hot again.

But really ripe with creativity.

Yes, and a lot of linen.

So we're at the case festival we are.

And we're in the kind of green room paddock, aren't we?

Where the grace and the good of the literary world are just sauntering past us.

Philippe Sands is on the next door table with Dolly Alder.

Dolly Alder is wearing the most fantastic gingham outfit.

Yes, just.

It's beyond gingham.

So it's got tears of gingham, not crying gingham.

But tears.

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