:23:02
perhaps even quite simple
aspects of their lives.
:23:05
People have obsessions
and fears and passions
:23:09
which they don't admit to.
:23:11
I think any character is
interesting and has extremes.
:23:16
It's the novelist's privilege
to see how odd everyone is.
:23:21
In your novels,
you yourself are very exact
:23:25
in your use of language.
:23:26
But in general terms,
do you think that language
:23:30
is becoming debased?
:23:31
Reading and writing
:23:33
and the preservation
of language and its forms
:23:38
and the kind of eloquence
and the kind of beauty
:23:43
that language is capable of
:23:46
is something terribly
important to human beings
:23:49
because... this is connected
to thought.
:23:54
If children are not taught...
:24:06
W-What did you say?
D-Did you ask...
:24:09
I was asking about
the importance of language.
:24:35
John!
:24:37
John!
:24:40
- John? John?
- Iris?
:24:44
John?
:24:45
- Oh, you're there.
- What is it?
:24:47
I'm back.
:24:49
M-Much earlier
than I thought.
:24:51
Yes, I came straight back.
I didn't know why I was there.
:24:54
You were going to do
an interview.
:24:56
- What interview?
- I don't know.
:24:58
So, um...
:24:59
And see your publisher?