So do you want, been well I've had better weeks Andy I've been I've spent most of it

unable to move in any kind of meaningful way lucky lucky like you know locked in

syndrome my eyes still work so I'm able to read but I have

been afflicted by that most marvelous of 18th century the you know the the malady of kings

the the gout which is

well well I shouldn't we should all's pause and think is actually it's really

painful my father-in-law suffers from gout and a third a third barely move but it serves him right for living like a tutor

yes I have to say much as I'd love to I mean I look much like false staff and I like to feel that I live with that kind of spirit

but in fact it's a bit more prosaic I mean a number of people I know suffer from gout

as thin as whippets and our fittest fiddles. It's a sort of genetic thing about

your inability to process uric acid. And I suspect that there are probably deep other reasons for why we come down with these

inflammatory illnesses like cancer, but it's it's not much fun, but it does mean if you're feeling even there is

what have you been able to do? Well I can I can read and I can you know I can write emails

so effectively I exist just as much as anybody else

in one more get myself elected as president on that basis.

Indeed.

That's been another thing.

The strange thing about the strange thing about,

it's close fellow traveller is melancholy.

Yeah, it does make you quite depressed.

I don't know whether that's a function of pain generally,

but I think it's...

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