Tony Walker

Where she got him from?

I don't know.

Because I think at that time, there was that guy who wrote a book called The Magus, Barrett.

And it was a very influential thing in mid-Victorian times.

So maybe she lifted him.

These sort of alchemist type figures.

Yeah, I don't know.

But there we are.

So...

I was going to say, you know your style of the prose, the prose, that was probably the final thing I wanted to say about the story itself, was it was...

quite measured quite stylistically different i mean you know a lot of stories these days are very demotic is the word isn't it whereby you know jeff is on the bus and he's eating his mcdonald's and then he sees do you know what i mean it's very much uh and he's on his phone to his mate and they're talking about you know love island or whatever people talk about uh but yours is is almost

It's more like Varney, to be honest.

It's a step back.

It's a more formal register of thought.

And did you deliberately stylistically do that or did it just come to you?

I think it is, yeah.

I mean, and there's different stories.

I mean, you talk about different stories we do on the podcast, and some of them are simply yarns.

They're not meant to be anything other than

And then there are other ones that seem to actually say something.