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Simon Mason
Interviewed 26 November 2016
Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...
In a minute I am going to do something successful.
Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...
Laptop. Printer. Suitcase containing the effects of my deceased aunt. Optex Express Ear Drops. Seated Neolithic Female Figure from Cernavoda, Romania. Approximately 2,700 books. Hand-drawn cartoon depicting myself as a beaver and my wife as a bat. Notebook. Pen.
Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?
A hard-boiled egg. Quite ambitious for me.
Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...
I don’t drink. However: Ivan Turgenev, Obama, my father, Elizabeth Bishop, Tom Waits, King Offa, Agatha Christie.
Six things you can't live without ...
Writing, cheese, sad music, regular runs, socks, my family.
Five favourite words ...
Treat, wibalin, veranda, bucket, chuff.
Four places you'd run away to ...
The Peak District, Lady Margaret Hall library, the end of the garden, Lynton in Devon.
Three books you've bought recently ...
Cold Calls by Christopher Logue. The High Window by Raymond Chandler. Make Me by Lee Child.
Two things that make you rant ...
Politicians, inanimate objects.
One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...
Cheer up.