Colm Tóibín
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And if you could work on that, just make your yellow really beautiful.
And don't worry about it.
Will this nourish someone?
I mean, lemon juice could destroy your appetite.
Not good for your teeth?
Yes, not good for anything.
But at the same time, there's something delicious about lemon juice or even the look of a lemon, the look of a peach.
So you're involved in that, in somehow or other dealing with the small matters of how interesting life is, how ambiguous it is, how odd it is, how dramatic it is.
Life, just life.
So he is.
I love that book of his about surfing, breath.
He was called Paul, by the way.
He was called Paul.
I had to change it.
And I forgot, I didn't change it enough.
So at one stage he was still called Paul in one paragraph.
The things that come to get you, you know, because I don't know how to do that thing on a laptop of, you know, changing a name and putting in another name instead of it.
So I went through each one.
But I missed one.
Yeah, it happened.