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This is Toplight Time Machine, I'm Andy Dawson, Papa Bow.

I'm Sandra Laney, so what?

Welcome along to what might be the last episode of the Twitter to see it might be the third

from last second, from last footballs. We're trying to work our way through with Deer and the

Life of Royal Dal. The little bit at the end of the book itself, we got one page through it

last week and we reached the point which described Dal's writing methodology. He always wrote in

pencil and only ever used a very particular kind of yellow pencil with a rubber on the end.

Before he started writing, Roald made sure he had six sharpened pencils in a jar by his side.

They lasted for two hours before needing to be re-sharpened. Well, the cunt never worked for more

than two hours anywhere, did he? So he did an hour and half in the morning, 10, 30, or 12,

and then four or six in the afternoon. So he obviously had, I don't know, did he re-sharp in

them himself? Did he have a sharpener in his fucking writing hut as it was called? Did he have some kind

of minion, it would sharpen them for him? That's how I know that I'm done. Once the sixth pencil

becomes blunt, that's me, Don. That's a lot of writing to get through six pencils in two hours.

What's he fucking? No, no, no, no, it depends what you categorise as blunt, no. Like, I'm

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