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And a bloody good book. PJ was a bit more assiduous in pursuing the original
list of questions with Catherine, I think.
Billy
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 3:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: Binary Myths One/Two
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> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:09:47 +0100, Billy wrote:
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> >And yet, the Nort & South interview book was based on a list
> of generic
> >questions mailed out to the participants some weeks in advance.
>
> - "based on" is right: in my case I seem to recall that David Annwn
> and I rough-tracked over the "scripted" questions the night before,
> while we were getting drunk, and went at it in a very different way
> the next day with aching heads and the recorder on. I think the only
> "common" question which all interviewees approach is the one about
> Ashbery and Larkin's definitions of "the poem".
>
> It was a very benign process, not a hint of Jeremy Paxman about it...
>
> RC
>