The Remains of the Day Q&A

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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We're back and we're answering YOUR questions about The Remains of the Day. We answer questions about the scene with the doctor, the root of Stevens' blindness, the duty/desire dichotomy, the role of food in the book, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.
0:05.7	I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.
0:09.0	We're here to answer your questions about the remains of the day.
0:12.6	But first of all, Heidi, Tim, welcome to the show.
0:14.8	How's it going?
0:16.1	It's going great.
0:17.0	David, thanks.
0:18.0	Good to be here.
0:18.5	Thanks, David.
0:19.2	Very well. So when I ask that question, do you guys ever feel this pressure to, like, wait for the other person to answer first or to not step?
0:26.3	Or do you just feel like it just sort of has evolved that there's a pattern and they hide the answers first or Tim answered?
0:31.5	Is there any, like, subconscious patterns that have developed there or?
0:35.1	Absolutely, yes. And I will say Tim and I both have a habit of waiting for other people to talk.
0:41.2	And so just in general in conversations, that's how both Tim and I are.
0:44.9	And so learning when, so we both start talking at the same time.
0:49.5	We like pause a little bit and wait for somebody to go.
0:52.1	So it's always a, it's a dance.
0:53.9	So I should probably just ask you each individually.
0:57.8	How are you doing?
0:59.4	How are you doing, honey?
1:00.5	I feel like we've gotten into a float.
1:02.6	We always say the same thing, no matter how we're doing.
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