Nick Harkaway

So, you know, that, yeah, it was a rough few years.

It doesn't have any legal consequences anymore here, but it's still symbolically.

I do.

Of course I do.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

And I have it.

And normally, actually, at the moment, it's in a cupboard because I need to give it a proper clean.

But normally it sits on a little campaign table that he had, which he occasionally used for writing, although it's not very practical, which he gave me a couple of years before he died.

So that's why I have the two of them together.

Oh, no, I knew what I was being given.

I mean, it's very un-British, but we did big gestures.

We did kind of emotional conversations.

He would almost have you believe that we were all too buttoned up

But except if you if you read the books, you realize that, of course, you know, they are depictions of actually the Brits coming unbuttoned and all kinds of, you know, extraordinary ways.

And he was very much that person.

He was actually the most cosmopolitan soul.

He was somebody who who reached out looking for.

as it were, Goethe's Germany or Red Vienna or, you know, the moments when anything is possible and people mix and great ideas are discovered or great poems are written, whatever.

He went as a child and kind of constantly as an adult, he went looking for those places.

And so very appropriately, he's...