In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing - "I do these pieces for them and it's amazing, because I don't type it out, I just fax it as it is, and the literary editor has a machine that can transform my handwriting into typed text. " At which point I put my hand up and said, "Actually, I'm that machine. "
There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.