Luke Kennard
speaker
543 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Luke Kennard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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which are not my parents at all, even though the puppy is named after a puppy that we briefly had when I was a kid.
They're not my parents whatsoever, but also I would refuse to describe my own parents in a novel.
They are dignified human beings who I respect too much to ever want to describe, to ever want to subject to the nausea of my own prose style.
To most people, I wouldn't do that.
I think that is an indefatigable truth.
So yes, I do concede that.
They're just like almost natural agglomerations.
No, but that point at which you said the parents are human beings.
Yeah, yes, right.
That's a good question.
Yeah.
I'm really trying to kind of force that point that there must be some way of just mining the most humiliating.
There's enough material, right, in the sort of humiliating and idiosyncratic depths of the self that feel revealing enough about what it's like being alive.
That's true.
The narrator says this at some point.
He's like, Claudio tells him off for kind of speaking in Latin.
He's like, can you just give like the X-Men language a rest?
Where he's like, I fear that I'm like, actually, I'm just like an English suburbanite.
For all of my hubris and all of my ambition and the talent that I still believe in despite like 17 years of not really getting anywhere with it, I think ultimately I'm an incredibly ordinary Englishman and that feels existentially horrifying to me.
Yes.
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