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| 0:00.0 | Tall things consider that. |
| 0:04.3 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:08.3 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:12.1 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:15.6 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read? |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, this is Mike Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm here in the studio today with Fay Weldon, |
| 0:24.6 | the author of most recently The Coning of Joanna May, |
| 0:28.7 | but also of the lives and loves of the She-Devil, |
| 0:32.2 | The Hearts and Minds of Men, |
| 0:35.1 | collections of short stories, |
| 0:36.9 | as well as a book of literary reflections on Jane Austen. |
| 0:42.2 | And as really what seems to me the inventor of a new kind of comic novel, it's a pleasure to have you here. |
| 0:51.3 | I figured I would ask the terrible question first. |
| 0:54.8 | Are you a hellian? |
| 0:56.5 | I don't know what a helian is. |
| 0:58.6 | A scourge from hell. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, I don't think so. |
| 1:03.1 | No, I mean, I like to see myself as an angel from heaven, but then who does not? |
| 1:08.1 | These books have been amazing me for, think around eight years now, mostly because while |
| 1:16.4 | they are immensely funny, they're extremely serious as well, taking on nothing less than the |
| 1:25.1 | reformation of the Race, if possible. |
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