Irving Finkel

They probably had lots of little coracles all tied together.

Did they?

Fuck!

I mean, you know, he couldn't read the stuff.

I mean, it's really, really, really annoying.

I mean, you should have a chance, shouldn't you?

You know, if you're going to have a fencing match, you both have to have a rapier, wouldn't you say?

Yeah.

But the thing is this.

The proportions of the material were accurate.

This is the crucial thing.

What had happened was they took the information about how you make a real collar, which is usually enough two people and a few sheep and goats, and they bumped them up so that it worked.

And I know why that is.

Because it goes back to your question about oral literature, because there must have been times when people went to villages and told them about the flood.

And when they got to the question of the boat, they'd say something like this.

And Enki said, you've got to build the biggest coracle you've ever seen.

Like that, right?

Well, I mean, if you do this in a cinema in Guildford, people will say, well, that's fine.

But if you do it to a whole load of river people who use coracles and make builds, they're not going to take that.

How big was it then?