Rick Morton
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332 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2019
last heard 18 Apr
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And I think there's an element of kind of being, like kind of turning over and exposing your soft belly when you admit that there are bigger, grander schemes out there beyond yourself and sometimes getting to the idea of, I mean, I'm fascinated by the mind,
and by space, the universe.
And if that doesn't make you feel small in a really amazing way, then I don't know what else can.
I could sit here all day, honestly.
Well, I mean, it's funny because, I mean, she was right to laugh at me because, I mean, this will probably come as a surprise to almost no one in this room, but there's no sex in my book.
It's probably a good thing because it's non-fiction and part memoir, I guess, but no sex.
And also, I've never dated anyone in my entire life.
I'm 34.
And so my mum, rightly, is just like, what the hell do you know about love?
And it turns out quite a lot, actually.
But my idea of love was always broader than that.
And I think necessarily because I've never experienced that romantic love.
And so love for me is kind of interpreted through all these other things in the world, like beauty and forgiveness and grace and basically how to be a good person, not a perfect person, but a person who's trying to be good.
Well, I actually quote James Baldwin, the African-American writer.
It's like one of the best writers of all time at the start of this book, because I think his definition is the best.
And he says, you know, I mean, when I talk about love, I don't mean in this infantile American sense of, you know, romance and what's in it for me, but this universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
And I think in order to grow, you have to be vulnerable.
You know, you have to kind of put energy into things that, you know, may leave you unguarded in your current state, but that kind of energy can be funneled into things that progress you as a person, as a life form.
I mean, it all sounds very high-minded, right, but it's not.
It's just I, you know, I lived shut off from the world for my entire 20s because I had this horrible trauma at the kind of the core of my life.
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