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| 0:00.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:07.0 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:11.0 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:15.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Michael Silverblatt. |
| 0:21.5 | Today my guest is a writer I've wanted to meet for a long time. |
| 0:25.3 | It's Frederick Tutton. |
| 0:26.8 | His first book was called The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. |
| 0:32.0 | His second was Talien, a brief romance. |
| 0:35.5 | Third, Tintin in the New World, a Romance. |
| 0:38.3 | And fourth, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe, a Love Story. |
| 0:43.3 | Most recent book published by Morrow. |
| 0:46.3 | Now I notice here, we start with adventures, get to a brief romance, have a romance proper, |
| 0:53.3 | and now of all things a love story. |
| 0:56.6 | Has there been a literary blooming here? |
| 1:00.0 | Let's say that what was maybe a crypto love story now has come into loveful bloom. |
| 1:07.3 | Maybe we can think of it that way. |
| 1:09.4 | And what would we mean by that? |
| 1:11.2 | It means that it's about love, this book, |
| 1:13.9 | and proposes to be only about love and passion for love of humans and of art. |
| 1:20.4 | All of the books are about, to some extent, interpenetration. |
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