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The Cat Who Reads Over Shoulders · Muggle Snuggle: A Boring Harry Potter Podcast to make you Sleep

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: It is half past six in the morning. I am
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: standing at my desk in my dressing gown with a
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: cold cup of tea going colder in my hand, and
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  Speaker 1: my notebook is open. I did not leave it open.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: I closed it last night, slowly, the way you close
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: anything that is being read. And I laid my pencil
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: across the cover, north to south, the way I always
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: lay it. And I went to bed. and this morning
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: the book lies open on the door page, the pencil
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: lies parallel beside it, the way you lay down anything finished,
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  Speaker 1: and underneath the last line Mrs. Patel said to me,
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  Speaker 1: the line about the step, there is a pencil line,
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  Speaker 1: a line I did not draw, under words I would
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  Speaker 1: never underline, in my own pencil, on my own desk.
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  Speaker 1: While I slept I did not touch anything, not the book,
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  Speaker 1: not the pencil, not the line. I stood in that
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  Speaker 1: doorway until the tea went from cold to colder. The
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  Speaker 1: way you stand when the evidence is still warm. And
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the desk the way you look at
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  Speaker 1: anything placed. Open book. Parallel pencil. Promoted quote. Three facts.
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  Speaker 1: None of them mine. All of them on my desk.
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  Speaker 1: Then I went back upstairs. The way you go back
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  Speaker 1: upstairs for anything. And I fetched the small tape from
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  Speaker 1: its drawer and I measured the line. Straight to the 16th.
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  Speaker 1: Steadier than mine. I have entered the measurement with the time.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence first. Tea never. The notebook has priorities, and the
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  Speaker 1: priorities held. Stay in the warm with me. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of this hour, you will know what the cat
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  Speaker 1: read over my shoulder on Sunday night, and how I
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  Speaker 1: proved it was reading, and what the Patels call the cat,
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  Speaker 1: in the words of the youngest Patel, bus permitting. and
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  Speaker 1: you will know what I found on my desk this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and what I wrote beneath it, and why I have
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  Speaker 1: started laying my pencil parallel, the way you lay down
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  Speaker 1: anything finished. The page is tonight, the reading is first.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome to Muggle Snuggle. My name is Hugh,
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  Speaker 1: I am 28 years old. I live at number 4,
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  Speaker 1: Bramble Lane, and as of this week, I am a
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  Speaker 1: man whose notebook is read back, which my sister has
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  Speaker 1: already called proofreading, possibly with the butter knife story attached
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  Speaker 1: for empathy. The supporters heard that story in full last night,
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  Speaker 1: with the string and the window and the missing knife.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of you will hear it when you have
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  Speaker 1: earned it, which is to say, when you join them,
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  Speaker 1: which is to say, the links are in the show notes,
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  Speaker 1: which is to say, I have been told to stop
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  Speaker 1: selling and start telling, by my sister. who hears these
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  Speaker 1: episodes before they go out, through methods this notebook has
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  Speaker 1: not yet solved. If you are back from last night,
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: welcome back, and yes, this is the episode the door
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  Speaker 1: promised you. Eleven seconds. A hallway, a corkboard, a cream
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  Speaker 1: envelope pinned among the day post, and the last line
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  Speaker 1: Mrs Patel said to me over the closing gap, with
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  Speaker 1: the cat winding round her ankles. Quote, mind the step,
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  Speaker 1: the cat sits there. End quote. I went home and
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  Speaker 1: wrote up the door page at my desk which faces
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  Speaker 1: the garden. And then, two nights running, the back of
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  Speaker 1: my neck went cold. The way it goes when Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Older curtain moves. Watched. I turned round. And there, on
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  Speaker 1: the garden wall behind me, framed in my own window,
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  Speaker 1: lit by my own desk lamp, sat the cat. Green eyes.
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  Speaker 1: wide open, not on me, past me, on the desk,
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  Speaker 1: on the notebook, on the page I was writing, reading
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  Speaker 1: over my shoulder. That was Sunday night. Tonight is the
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  Speaker 1: whole of it, in order, with the evidence laid out
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  Speaker 1: the way evidence deserves. To the regulars first, because regulars
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  Speaker 1: first is the rule of this house, and by this
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  Speaker 1: house I mean my actual house, number four, which has
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  Speaker 1: never once been read back before Sunday as far as
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  Speaker 1: I know, and that qualifier is doing more work than
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  Speaker 1: any qualifier has ever done in this notebook. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for coming back. And before we go a step further,
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  Speaker 1: three things that have happened since last night, because the
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  Speaker 1: street has not been idle while I have been writing. 1.
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  Speaker 1: Dave the postman passed the step of number 7 yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 1: slowed the way, Dave never slows. Looked at the cat,
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  Speaker 1: sitting there and said, quote, morning, end quote. Morning to
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  Speaker 1: the step. I was behind my curtain at the time,
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  Speaker 1: the way you are, and I could not tell whether
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  Speaker 1: the morning was for me or for the cat. And
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  Speaker 1: Dave walked on without clarifying. The way Dave walks on.
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  Speaker 1: I have entered it with the time and a question mark,
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  Speaker 1: because question marks are for mornings that refuse to resolve.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen years of daylight, and either Dave has started greeting furniture,
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  Speaker 1: or Dave has started greeting the landlord. What does Dave know?
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  Speaker 1: About the cat sits on the page already. It now
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  Speaker 1: has a third line beneath it, also in pencil. And
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  Speaker 1: who was the morning for? Two. The Henderson's new dishwasher,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth, different brand, blessed with tap water, has completed
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  Speaker 1: twelve full cycles without incident, doubling the street record. And
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  Speaker 1: Gary told me this over the fence, with the shining
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  Speaker 1: eyes of a man who has beaten something he cannot name.
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  Speaker 1: And then he knocked on the dishwasher twice. With his knuckles,
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  Speaker 1: for luck. The way you knock on anything that has
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  Speaker 1: started behaving. Two knocks. Measured. I counted them the way
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  Speaker 1: you count all knocks on this street. And I am
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  Speaker 1: saying nothing further. Because some counts are load-bearing, and this
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  Speaker 1: may be one of them. I am happy for the Hendersons.
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  Speaker 1: I am watching the dishwasher. 3. My sister rang yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: hearing that I was writing about the cat, and said
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  Speaker 1: the cat is proofreading my notebook the way she proofread
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  Speaker 1: my school essays. Red pen first and mercy never. And
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  Speaker 1: then she laughed the way sisters laugh, and said the
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  Speaker 1: butter knife has come back up the string after 19
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  Speaker 1: years to check my spelling. Then she stopped laughing, the
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  Speaker 1: way sisters stop when they mean it, and said I
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  Speaker 1: should read my own notebook before the cat grades it,
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  Speaker 1: read it before it is graded, Family advice, filed with
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  Speaker 1: the testimony. I wrote it all down anyway, word for word,
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  Speaker 1: because the notebook takes testimony from all sources, including family,
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  Speaker 1: especially family. Proofreading, spelling, grading. You will see why those
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  Speaker 1: words matter before this hour is out. This show sits
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  Speaker 1: happily in the background while you wash up or walk
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  Speaker 1: the door or wait for paint to dry. I will
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  Speaker 1: be here either way, notebook in hand, doing the noticing.
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  Speaker 1: And if you enjoy tonight, do subscribe so tomorrow finds
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  Speaker 1: you on its own. And do share us with the
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  Speaker 1: nosiest person you know. Every street has one. On Gledhow
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  Speaker 1: Valley Road in Leeds, it is a woman called R
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  Speaker 1: with her own flask. And R, tonight's episode, is partly
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  Speaker 1: your fault as well, because your letters taught me that
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  Speaker 1: the watched streets are plural, and that sentence has lived
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  Speaker 1: in the notebook since. Now, something practical before we open
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  Speaker 1: the notebook together first of the evening. And I will
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  Speaker 1: be brief, because the reading took an hour, and I
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  Speaker 1: intend to spend most of it on the reading. A
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  Speaker 1: few of you have asked how to keep this show standing.
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  Speaker 1: There are two ways, both linked in the show notes.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: The Supporter Club on Spreaker is the quick one. Right
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  Speaker 1: where you listen. Episodes waiting where you already are. Patreon
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  Speaker 1: is the longer lane. Early episodes and extra uncut pages
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  Speaker 1: for the truly committed across every show in the stable.
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  Speaker 1: Same lane, same watcher. Pick your door. Reich. Lamp on.
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  Speaker 1: Notebook open. Pencil up. Let us go back to Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night and the cold neck and the green eyes on
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  Speaker 1: the page. Sunday night, half past eleven. My desk faces
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  Speaker 1: the garden. The lamp lights the page, and I am
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  Speaker 1: writing up the door page, the corkboard passage, word by word,
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  Speaker 1: the way you write anything that matters. Behind me, the garden.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond the garden, the wall, eight feet from my window
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  Speaker 1: to the stone. I have measured it twice, once with
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  Speaker 1: the small tape from my desk drawer, once by pacing,
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  Speaker 1: and both measurements agree. Because distances are data, and data
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  Speaker 1: gets checked. Eight feet. Remember that number. It matters the
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  Speaker 1: way all small numbers matter on this street. Saturday gave
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  Speaker 1: me the first glance. The one I told you about
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  Speaker 1: last night. The slow close. The blink. The unchanged page.
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  Speaker 1: Cats cannot read, I said. Everyone knows that. Sunday gave
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  Speaker 1: me the second look. The lines. The speeds. The proof.
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  Speaker 1: This act is the second look, the page. as it
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  Speaker 1: stood when the neck went cold, ran like this. The
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  Speaker 1: hallway first. Six lines. Narrow. Warm. Smelling of frying onions.
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  Speaker 1: Four pairs of boots lined by the mat. The corkboard next.
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  Speaker 1: Six lines. Bill's. Menus. A school letter with a red star.
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  Speaker 1: Pinned day post. String. A brass drawing pin. The cream
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  Speaker 1: envelope next. The lines I was writing when it happened.
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  Speaker 1: Thick paper. Green ink on the front. Sealed with red wax.
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  Speaker 1: Pinned in the middle of the board. Two seconds at
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  Speaker 1: twelve feet. Upside down. Unread. I was on the third
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  Speaker 1: envelope line when the neck went cold. Third of five.
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  Speaker 1: The red wax. I had just written that the wax
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  Speaker 1: was the red of pillar boxes, the way seals are read.
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  Speaker 1: And I was reaching the end of the line, pencil moving,
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  Speaker 1: lap warm, remember that. The pencil was moving, the line
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  Speaker 1: was unfinished. The reader arrived mid-sentence, the way readers arrive. And,
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  Speaker 1: about all of it, set apart the way quotes are
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  Speaker 1: set apart. The last line Mrs Patel said to me, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Mind the step, the cat sits there, end quote. Written first,
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  Speaker 1: set apart. Testimony, not ruling. I do not underline testimony.
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  Speaker 1: The notebook has never underlined a quote, not once in
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  Speaker 1: six years, and I need that on the record now.
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  Speaker 1: The way foundations need recording before the house goes up.
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  Speaker 1: Quotes are what the street says. Rulings are what the
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  Speaker 1: notebook decides. The line between them holds. It held until
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning. Hold that notion lightly. It lands later. The
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  Speaker 1: neck went cold at half past eleven to the minute.
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  Speaker 1: I know the minute because I looked at my watch
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  Speaker 1: the way you look at anything that starts, and the
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  Speaker 1: watch said half past eleven, and I have entered it
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  Speaker 1: as the time down. Not a draft. The window was shut.
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  Speaker 1: The door was shut. The lamp was warm on my hands.
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  Speaker 1: Cold at the neck only, the exact cold of being
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  Speaker 1: looked at. The cold I know from six years of Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Aldercurtain and a fortnight of Chairman on the Belfry. Watched.
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  Speaker 1: From behind, through glass. I put the pencil down, slowly,
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  Speaker 1: the way you put down anything in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a sentence, and I turned round in my chair, all
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  Speaker 1: the way, The way you turn for anything behind you.
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  Speaker 1: And there it was. On the garden wall. Framed in
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  Speaker 1: my own window. Lit by my own desk lamp. The cat. Small. Dark.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting square on the stone. The way it's six square
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  Speaker 1: on the step. Facing the glass. Green eyes. Wide open.
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  Speaker 1: And here is the detail the whole evening turns on.
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  Speaker 1: So I am going to give it to you slowly.
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  Speaker 1: The way it came to me slowly. The eyes were
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  Speaker 1: not on me. Past me. Past my shoulder. Down at
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  Speaker 1: the desk. On the notebook. On the page. And the
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  Speaker 1: lines I had just written. Reading over my shoulder, I
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  Speaker 1: did not speak. I did not stand. I did not
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  Speaker 1: reach for Gerald. Though Gerald sat on the shelf above
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  Speaker 1: the desk, cleaned and ready, the way instruments sit. You
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  Speaker 1: do not fetch instruments when the evidence is already performing.
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  Speaker 1: You sit still, and you breathe shallow, and you let
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  Speaker 1: the street do what it came to do. So I sat,
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  Speaker 1: half turned, pencil down, hardly breathing, with eight feet of
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  Speaker 1: garden and one pane of glass between my shoulder and
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  Speaker 1: the reader, and I did the only thing the moment allowed.
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  Speaker 1: I inventoried the stillness first, the way you inventory everything
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  Speaker 1: before the movement starts. No tail tip, no ear flick,
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  Speaker 1: no whisker tremor, no paw shift on the stone. The
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  Speaker 1: stair rod knight taught me what eleven minutes of cat
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  Speaker 1: stillness looks like. And this was that stillness. Complete. Held.
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  Speaker 1: The full statue. Only the eyes lived. Only the green moved.
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  Speaker 1: That is the discipline. Stillness first. Movement second. Ruling never.
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  Speaker 1: Until it repeats. I watched it back. Not the cat.
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  Speaker 1: The eyes. The green. The movement. Because movement was the
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  Speaker 1: whole question. A stare is a stare. Cat stare. Lamps. Hold. Stares.
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  Speaker 1: But movement along lines, left to right, down a page,
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  Speaker 1: that is not staring. That is reading. And the notebook
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  Speaker 1: does not rule on stares. It rules on movement. Now.
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  Speaker 1: A watcher who shouts reading at the first green glance
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  Speaker 1: is no watcher at all. Cats look at lamps. Cats
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  Speaker 1: look at movement. Cats look at men who turn round
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  Speaker 1: suddenly in chairs. I know all of that the way
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  Speaker 1: I know my own address, so I did what the
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  Speaker 1: notebook demands. The way it demands everything, before any ruling,
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  Speaker 1: and beneath every line. I tested it. Sitting there, turned
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  Speaker 1: half round, pencil down, hardy breathing. I watched the eyes
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  Speaker 1: the way the eyes watched the page. And the eyes moved.
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  Speaker 1: Along the lines. Left to right. Line by line. The
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  Speaker 1: way you read. The way I read. The way anyone
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  Speaker 1: reads who learned it young. And never stopped. I counted
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  Speaker 1: fourteen lines. Fourteen. Left to right. Down the page. Steady
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  Speaker 1: as a metronome. And I counted them the way you
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  Speaker 1: count anything impossible. On my fingers. under the desk, where
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  Speaker 1: the reader could not see. Fourteen lines. And here is
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  Speaker 1: the second detail, the one that turned a sighting into
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  Speaker 1: an investigation. The pace changed on the envelope lines. Two
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  Speaker 1: seconds a line through the hallway and the corkboard, steady, unhurried.
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  Speaker 1: And then four seconds a line on the cream envelope,
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  Speaker 1: the thick paper, the missing stamp, the headline hang, twice
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  Speaker 1: as long. The gaze slowed where the mystery thickened. Either
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  Speaker 1: the cat reads at one speed and considers at another,
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  Speaker 1: or the envelope interested it. The way the envelope interests me,
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  Speaker 1: I am not saying it has opinions about post. I
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  Speaker 1: am saying the eyes moved at two speeds, and the
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  Speaker 1: slow speed was for the envelope, and the notebook has
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  Speaker 1: filed the speeds with the lines, timed, not explained. That
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  Speaker 1: is the rotor for numbers as well as sources. Count them.
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  Speaker 1: Log them. Underline nothing until it repeats. It ended the
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  Speaker 1: way everything on this street ends. I looked down, one glance,
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  Speaker 1: down at the notebook, to write the only line the
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  Speaker 1: night allowed. It is reading. Four words. In capitals. No
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  Speaker 1: underline yet, because underlines need repeats, and Sunday gave me
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  Speaker 1: the second reading, the second night, the one wall. Four words.
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  Speaker 1: written in the margin with my hands shaking the way
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: hands shake after steroids and belfries and blue doors. And
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  Speaker 1: when I looked up, the wall was empty, gone in
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  Speaker 1: a glance, the way the house goes. The way everything
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  Speaker 1: goes that waits until you look away. I.E. waits until
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  Speaker 1: you look away. Three underlines. The house page, and now
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a second entry beneath a second heading, because the rule
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  Speaker 1: has repeated. The reading lasted nine minutes by my watch.
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  Speaker 1: Time down half past eleven. Time up twenty to twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Nine minutes. Fourteen lines. Two speeds. One glance. Gone. I
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  Speaker 1: sat at that desk for a full hour after, lamp on,
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  Speaker 1: pencil down, looking at the empty wall the way you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: look at anything that has just read you. I finished
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  Speaker 1: the envelope passage during that hour. All five lines, wax
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  Speaker 1: and ink and all, from memory, the way you finish
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  Speaker 1: anything interrupted. and I turned over the nine minutes the
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  Speaker 1: way you turn over anything that lands, a cat that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: reads at two speeds, an envelope that holds it twice
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  Speaker 1: as long, a glance that ends it, the way glances
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  Speaker 1: end everything. And here is the notion I carried out
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  Speaker 1: of that hour into the experiments, because the experiments needed it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: If the reading was real, it would repeat. If it repeated,
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  Speaker 1: it would survive controls. And if it survived controls... The
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: notebook would have to rule. So I refilled the lamp,
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  Speaker 1: though the lamp did not need it. I sharpened the pencil,
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  Speaker 1: though the pencil did not need it. I turned to
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  Speaker 1: a fresh page, though the door page had room. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I waited, the way watchers wait, for the reader to
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  Speaker 1: come back. The neck went cold again at twenty past one.
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  Speaker 1: an hour and forty minutes after the first reading. Time down,
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  Speaker 1: twenty past one, entered on the fresh page. I turned.
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  Speaker 1: slowly this time, the way you turn when you know
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  Speaker 1: what is there. And there it was, same stone, same
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  Speaker 1: square sit, same green eyes, past my shoulder and down
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  Speaker 1: at the desk. On the fresh page, which was blank,
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  Speaker 1: and here is the first control delivered free, before I
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  Speaker 1: had run a single test. The gaze, finding no lines, stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Four seconds of green on blank paper, then away, off
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  Speaker 1: the page, up to the window frame, gone, wandering the
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  Speaker 1: way eyes wander with nothing to read. A cat that
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  Speaker 1: looks at lamps would have looked at the lamp. A
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  Speaker 1: cat that looks at movement would have watched me turn.
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  Speaker 1: This one looked for lines, found none, and left. Control one,
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  Speaker 1: passed without being set. The reader reads. Blank pages hold
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it four seconds. I picked up the pencil, slowly, where
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the reader could see. The way you move when you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: are being supervised. And I wrote. Not the door page.
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  Speaker 1: Test lines. Short ones, spaced wide, so the gaze would
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  Speaker 1: have room to show itself. Line one. The wall is stone.
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  Speaker 1: Line two. The night is wet. Line three. The lamp
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  Speaker 1: is warm. and the green came back to the page,
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  Speaker 1: before the second line was finished, left to right down
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  Speaker 1: the lines, steady as the metronome, the way it had
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  Speaker 1: read the door page an hour before. Three lines, three trackings.
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  Speaker 1: Then I turned the lamp down, low, the way you
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  Speaker 1: turn down anything for a test, until the page sat
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  Speaker 1: in shadow, and only the window glow lit it, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the eyes stayed green, on the page, in the dark.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Lit from inside, the way windows glow, the way I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: ruled them on the stair rod night when the torch
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  Speaker 1: stayed off and the pencil drew twice and wrong. Lamps,
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  Speaker 1: not mirrors. Already ruled, already underlined, and now applied. The
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  Speaker 1: reader does not follow the light, it follows the text.
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  Speaker 1: Control 2, passed. Whatever the green is, it reads by it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Control 3, the decoy. Because a watcher who has not
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: tried a false line has not tested reading at all.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I wrote line four, slowly, letters large, where the green
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: could not miss it. The cat is ginger. False. The
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: cat is dark. The cat has always been dark. Six
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: years of step-log. Dark in every entry. I wrote the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: false line, and I watched the eyes, and the eyes stopped.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Full stop. no tracking no drift four seconds of stillness
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: on four false words the way you stop on anything
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: wrong and then I did what proofreaders do I crossed
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it out one line through pencil firm the way corrections
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: go and beneath it I wrote line five the cat
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is dark and green eyed and correct and the gaze
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: resumed left to right down to the true line steady
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: as the metronome. I am not saying it objected. I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: am saying the gaze stopped on the false line and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: resumed on the true one, and the notebook has filed
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the stop with the readings, and filed the crossing out
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: beside it, because corrections are data too. Either it reads,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: or it proofreads. Either way, it edits. My sister, hearing
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: this part yesterday, laughed for some time and said she
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: told me so. The notebook records the laugh. The notebook
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: records everything. Then the orientation test, because a watcher who
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: has not turned the page has not tested reading at all.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I took the notebook in both hands, slowly, where the
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: green could see, and I turned it upside down on
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the desk. Lines reversed, words wrong way up, the true
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: line about the dark cat standing on its head, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I watched the window, the gaze which had been resting
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: at the page foot, lifted, moved to the top of
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the turned page, and tracked, right to left, down the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: upside-down lines, steady as the metronome, backwards and upside-down, the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: way you read anything turned. I turned the book back, slowly,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and the gaze turned with it, left to right again,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Down the lines again, steady as ever. Twice turned, twice followed.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I am not saying it reads upside down the way
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you and I read right way up. I am saying
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the green followed the lines both ways round, and the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: notebook has filed the turning with the trackings. It reads
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the page, not the room, not the lamp, the page.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Control 4 passed. Whatever the green is, It finds the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: lines wherever the lines lie. Control 5. The reading aloud test.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Because method was flowing and the reader was patient and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the night was still young at half past one, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: put the pencil down. I leaned toward the page. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I read line 5 aloud, softly, through the glass, the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: way you read anything to anyone. The cat is dark
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and green-eyed and correct, word by word, slowly, And the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: gaze moved with the words. With them. Word for word
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: down the line. Arriving at correct as I spoke it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: The way you follow anything read aloud. Then onward. Past
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the spoken line. Down to the next. Continuing alone it
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: reads along. And it reads ahead. I read no more.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Some tests you run once. Because once is complete. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: have entered it as a single line. Dated. Timed. Witnessed.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Reads along, reads ahead. Underneath it, in pencil, the question
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the test raised. Because tests raise questions the way sources
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: raise feathers. If it reads ahead, how far ahead does
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it go? Page foot. Page turn. Next, sitting. The notebook
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: holds the question open. It can afford to. It has
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: nine questions and room for more. Last, controls. The slow close.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Half past two by my watch, seven pages of tests.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: The reader still on the wall, still green, still past
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: my shoulder. I laid the pencil down. I put my
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: hand on the cover. And I closed. The notebook, slowly.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The way you close anything that is being read. Watching
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the window and not the page. Watching the green and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: not the paper. And the gaze followed the cover down,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: down past the halfway. down to the slit, down to nothing.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: It watched the reading end the way you watch anything end,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: all the way to the close. And then, cover shut.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Tests complete. The cat did the one thing it had
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: not done all night. It blinked. Once. Slowly. Fixing my
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: window through the glass, the permission blink, the landlord's stamp.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And then it rose. and stretched the long stretch, nose
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to tail, and stepped down off the wall into the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: dark without looking down. The way you step off anything
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you have stepped off a thousand times. Time up. Twenty
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to three. Gone. The wall empty. The page shut. The
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: pencil down. Six controls. Six passes. Tracked fourteen lines at
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: two speeds. Stopped four seconds on blank. stayed green with
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the lamp down, stopped on the false line and resumed
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: on the true, tracked right to left upside down, read
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: along and read ahead, followed the cover to the close.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I sat at that desk until three, lamp low, pencil down,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: turning over the four passes the way you turn over
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: anything complete. And then I opened the notebook again, slowly,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the way you open anything that is being read, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I turned to the fresh page and wrote the ruling.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: one underline. Because one is for facts that arrive complete,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and this one arrived with timings and speeds and stops.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: The cat reads, three words, underlined once, dated, witnessed by
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the lamp and the pencil and the empty wall, the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: first new ruling on the reading page. It would not
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be the last. Monday morning had a pencil of its own.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: But mornings come later, the name comes first. And before
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the name, the practical, second of the evening, because even
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: investigations run on tea and my flask has been empty
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: since twenty past one. You know the shape of it
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: by now and I will keep it brief. Two links
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in the show notes. The Supporter Club on Spreaker if
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you like it quick. Right inside the app where you listen.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Episodes waiting where you already are. Patreon. If you want
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the longer lane, early episodes and extra pages and the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: notebook beyond the margins, Across every show in the stable,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: same wall either way, same reader, off duty until dusk.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you. ruling lines at three in the morning done
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: practical over the bus stop is next and the bus
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: for once permitted A family that has had a cat
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: on its step for eight years must call it something.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That was the question I carried to the bus stop
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: on Thursday morning. Notebook open, pencil up. Priya. School bag.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Straight shoes. The wave already given and returned. I asked
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: her what her family calls the cat. And Priya grinned
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the grin, the one her mother rearranges for mothers, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: she said, quote, we call it, end quote, And then
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the bus came round the corner at exactly the wrong moment,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the way buses do when statements are being taken. And
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Priya got on the bus with her shoes straight and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: her statement unfinished. And waved from the window and was gone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We call it. Full stop. Bus, I have told the supporters.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: The long version of that morning, with the timetable and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the wave and the ring round the two words, because
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: rings are for statements that resumed. The short version is
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the bus. The statement resued on Monday. This is the resuming.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Sunday first, because Sunday explains Monday. I went back yesterday morning.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Same stop, same hour, same pencil. And I asked again.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And Priya looked at me down the whole length of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the pavement, the way the watched look at the watcher,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and she said, quote, tonight at nigh hue, end quote,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: in my own cadence. perfectly. Tonight at nine, Hugh, the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: whole family listens. An episode behind, the whole family knows
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the arrangement. Page tonight, margins, now. She would not be
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: moved I tried twice, the way you try twice, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: then I wrote down the refusal with the time, because
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: refusals are dated too, and I went home. And all
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of Sunday, I turned over the refusal the way you
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: turn over anything withheld. She knows the name. The family
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: knows the name. And the name waits for tonight. So
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Monday morning, before school, before the round, before Mrs. Older
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Curtin had finished its exercises, I walked down to the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: bus stop with my notebook already open. If the name
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: was waiting for tonight, then tonight would have to start
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: at the bus stop. Mornings have buses. Nights have episodes.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I have a pencil. We would see which arrived first.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Half past eight. Grey light. Priya at the stop. School bag.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Straight shoes. Early for once. The way the young are
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: early when they have decided something. No bus yet. The
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: corner empty. The timetable for once, holding its breath. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: said good morning. She said, good morning, Hugh. I said
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I had come about the name, and she did not grin.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: She nodded, once the way her mother nods, the way
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the whole family nods when things are decided, and she
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: said it, plainly, clearly, loud enough for the notebook and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the stop and the empty corner. Quote, we call it Keeper,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: end quote. Keeper. I wrote it down before the pencil
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: knew what it was writing. Keeper. Six letters. Two syllables,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the first name the cat has ever had on any
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: page of mine. And then I asked why, because why
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: is the whole of naming. And Priya said, quote, Mum
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: says someone has to keep the step, end quote. Mum
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: says someone has to keep the step. Someone has to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: keep the step. I stood at that bus stop with
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: my notebook open and my pencil up. the way you
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: stand when the street repeats itself. And I turned over
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the sentence the way you turn over anything with two owners,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: because Mrs. Alder said those exact words to me on Tuesday.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Over the funts. Word for word. Tote. Someone has to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: keep the step hue. End quote. Hers with my name
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: on the end. The Patels without. And now, the same sentence,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: twice sourced, holding a name between them. Either Mrs. Alder
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: heard it from the Patels, or the Patels heard it
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: from Mrs. Alder, or the sentence belongs to neither family
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and both, the way proverbs belong to streets. I asked
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Priya which, she shrugged the shrug, the one that rearranges nothing.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And she said, quote, it is just what mum says,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: end quote. Just what mum says. Eight years of mum
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: saying it. Longer than me. Longer than the notebook. I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: have entered the sentence as shared testimony both sources both
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: dates and I have ringed it because rings are for
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: sentences with owners still to find. Who said it first,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Alder or Patel, is an open question with its own line.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It's six beneath WHO drank the milk and above what
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: does Dave know about the cut and the three questions
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: together are the shape of everything I do not know
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: about my own street. The bus came round the corner
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: as I finished writing. at exactly the right moment, for once.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Priya got on with her shoes straight and her statement
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: finished and waved from the window and was gone. Bus permitting.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: It permitted. I put the shared sentence to Mrs. Alder
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: over the fence on the way home, not directly. You
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: do not put things directly to Mrs. Alder. You lay
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: them beside the fence like saucers and see what drinks,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I said. The Patelts have a sentence about the step,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: she said. Quote, they would. End quote. I said it
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: was the same sentence as hers. Word for word. She
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: looked at me the way she looks at the lane
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: when the lane asks a foolish question, and she said, quote,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: sentences are like saucers, Hugh. End quote. Sentences are like saucers.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: They turn up where they are needed. I asked what
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that meant. She said, quote, it means mind the step.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: End quote. and went inside. The curtain twitched twice behind her,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: which I have entered as punctuation. Alder or Patel? Patel
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: or Alder? The sentence sits between two houses the way
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the cat sits between two walls, belonging to both and neither. Keeper.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I carried it home the way you carry anything named.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: saying it under my breath all the way up the lane. Keeper.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Past Mrs Glover Curtain, which opened its six inches as
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I passed, held them for three paces, and closed again
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: with nothing said. I nodded at the six inches, the
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: way you nod at anything that outranks you, and I
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: logged the opening when I got home, because openings are data,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: even silent ones, especially silent ones. Keeper. not emerald, which
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the margins discarded as too grand, not doorkeeper, discarded as
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: too narrow, not minutes, discarded as too soon. Keeper. The
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Patel's name. Eight years old. Said by a mother. Carried
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: by a daughter. Delivered at a bus stop. Approved by
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a curtain. That is four witnesses to a name before noon.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: The notebook has never minuted a naming so witnessed. Biscuit
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: had the features and the street. Chairman had the belfry
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and the turn. Keeper has a mother, a daughter, a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: curtain and a bus. Rank arrives with retinues. This one
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: brought the lane. And here is what the name does
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to every ruling on the cat pages. Because names rearrange
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: evidence the way keys rearrange doors. The cat answers to Rank.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Six evenings of whistle test. Five failures. One three-second stare
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: for landlord. Rank answered then. Rank answers now. Keeper is
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: not a pet name. Keeper is a post. The way
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: chairman is a post. The way biscuit keeps the timetable
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and Dave keeps the round and I keep the minutes.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone on this lane keeps something. The cat keeps the step.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Mind it. The margins weighted, the page names. From tonight,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the notebook says, Keeper. But a watcher who writes a
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: name without testing it is naming the way the careless name.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: So Monday dusk, from my own front path, at the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: hour the step fills, I tested it. The cat sat
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: on the step of number seven in plain view, facing
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the lane, green eyes forward, the way evidence sits when
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it knows it is being decided about. I cleared my throat.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the way you clear anything before rank. And I called
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: across the lane, clearly, once, the way you call anything
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that outranks you. Cloat. Keeper. End quote. The cat turned
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: its head. All the way. Green eyes. Full stare. Held
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: it for three seconds. And blinked once. Slowly. The permission blink.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: The landlord stamp. And turned back to the lane. Three seconds.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: The only acknowledgement since landlord. The second acknowledgement in six
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: years of calling. Rank. answered twice. I wrote it down
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: with the time and the light, and I underlined it once,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: in pen, because pen is for testimony that corroborates. The
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: name holds. And then I did what namings require, the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: way ceremonies require everything. I turned to the front of
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the notebook, to the page headed The Catalogue, six years old,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: first sitting October, and I crossed out the heading, one
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: line through, dated, witnessed by the lamp, and above it,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: in capitals, in pen, because pen is for lines that land.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I wrote the new heading, Keeper. Six letters. The landlord
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: retired with honours, kept as the title beneath, because titles
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: are earned, and this one earned six years. Keeper the name,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: landlord the title. Rank and name together, the way chairman
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: is both. And beneath the new heading, in pencil, the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: line that governs all naming on this street, carried over
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: from the margins, because margins become pages the way evenings
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: become mornings. Names are forever. Keeper. Forever. The page has decided.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: The waiting ends. I found it at dawn, before the bus.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: But I am telling it last, because last is where
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: mornings like that belong. Sunday night first, so the morning lands,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the way mornings land. Tests complete. Reader gone. Wall empty.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Twenty to three by my watch. I laid the pencil down.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I put my hand on the cover. And I closed
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the notebook. Slowly, the way you close anything that has
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: been read. And I laid the pencil across the cover,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: north to south, the way I always lay it. the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: way I have laid it every night for six years.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Closed book, crossed pencil, the reader was gone, and the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: wall was empty, and the house was shut, and I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: went to bed. Time up, twenty to three. Entered on
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the fresh page, the last line of Sunday, underlined nothing,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: dated everything. Monday dawn, half past six, grey light through
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the landing window. I came downstairs the way you come
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: downstairs on mornings after readings. Quietly, In slippers, tea first
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and notebook second. And there it was. On the desk,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the book, open. I stopped in the doorway with the
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: tea going cold in my hand, the way you stop
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: for anything placed. And I looked at the desk the
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: way you look at anything that has moved in the night. Open.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: To the door page. The hallway. The corkboard. The cream envelope.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: The quote set apart at the top. And the pencil.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Not across the cover, the cover was underneath, open back.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: The pencil lay parallel beside the book, north to south still, placed, deliberate,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the way you lay down anything finished. Closed and crossed
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: at twenty to three. Open and parallel at half past six.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: While I slept. In a shut house. Eight feet from
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the garden wall. And underneath the quote, set apart, no longer,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: there was a line. Pencil. My pencil. Pencil. The grey
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of my lead, the width of my point, drawn straight
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: beneath the last line Mrs Patel said to me, quote,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: mind the step, the cat sits there, end quote, underlined, once.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I stood in that doorway for a long time, tea cold,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: slippers still, turning over the line the way you turn
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: over anything impossible. I do not underline testimony. Six years,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: never once. Quotes are what the street says. Rulings are
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: what the notebook decides. The line between them held. It
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: held until Monday morning. Someone drew a line under a quote.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: In my pencil. On my desk. While I slept. Someone
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: promoted testimony to ruling. Someone with opinions about the step.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I did what the notebook demands. The way it demands everything.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Before any ruling and beneath every line. I checked the alternatives.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: The window. Shut. Latched. The way I left it. The door. Shut.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: The way I left it. The pencil. Mine. From the cover.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: No second pencil in the house that draws that grey.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I checked the drawer to be sure. Three spare pencils
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: in the drawer. All unsharpened. All innocent. All exactly where
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the drawer keeps them. The line. Straight. measured with the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: small tape from the drawer straight to the 16th ruled straight,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: or drawn by a hand steadier than mine at half
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: past six on any morning. My hands shake before tea.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows that. The whole street knows that. This line
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: did not shake. I checked the page twice, the pencil twice,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the latches twice, the way you check anything twice, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: then I checked the rest of the door page. Line
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: by line for other marks. The hallway lines. Clean. The
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: corkboard lines. Clean. The envelope lines. Clean. All five. Wax
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: and ink and all. One line only. Under the quote,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: nowhere else. The auditor edits sparingly. One ruling promoted. The
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: rest of the page, approved, as written. I have entered
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: that as a fact with its own line. No other marks.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Because what the pencil did not touch matters as much
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: as what it touched. Fourteen lines read. Sunday, the envelope
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: passage finished after. One, quote promoted. Monday, the reader read everything.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: The reader ruled once. And then I sat down at
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the desk, in the dressing gown with the cold tea.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: And I drank the tea anyway. Cold to colder. Standing
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: order suspended, because some mornings outrank tea. Cold tea is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: still tea, the way open books are still books, the
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: way promoted quotes are still quotes. I drank it looking
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: at the line, and then I wrote, beneath the line,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: in the margin, in capitals, the only answer the morning allowed. Noted.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Six letters. Dated. Not underlined, because answers are not rulings.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: The auditor has ruled. The minutes have minuted the ruling.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Reports go up, readings come down. And now, for the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: first time in six years of filing, a reading has
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: come down in pencil, on the page, under the quote.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: The minutes have a reader, and the reader has a pencil.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I took it to the fence, because there are some
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: mornings you cannot keep to yourself. Mrs. Aldo. Monday midday.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the cat on the step in plain view of both
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of us, the way evidence sits when it knows it
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: is being discussed. I told her the whole of it,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the reading, the ruling, the open book, the line under
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the quote. Word by word, the way testimony goes over fences,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and Mrs. Older listened without twitching once, which I have
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: entered as a fact, because Mrs. Older always twitches. And
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: then she looked at the step, and the cat, and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: me in that order. And she said, quote, someone has
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to check your spelling, Hugh, end quote. Someone has to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: check your spelling. I wrote it down word for word.
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  Speaker 1: I have underlined it once, in pencil, because pencil is
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: for lines too big for pen, and I have added
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a notion beneath it that I am still turning over.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the step was never the whole of it. Perhaps
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: keeping means reading, Perhaps it always did. The street is
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: not describing a pet. It is describing a post. And
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the post, listeners, has a pencil. It has my pencil.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Mind the step. Mind the saucer. Mind the wall. And
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: from tonight, mind the margins. All of it is kept.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: All of it is read. Features time. and tonight the
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: notebook comes first. Because the reading pages deserve to be
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: read aloud in full, the way evidence deserves daylight. From
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: my notebook, three pages, written across four days, abbreviations expanded
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: for the listeners. Page one, headed, The Reading, Sunday, half
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: past eleven, neck cold, cat on wall, eyes past shoulder,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: down at desk, fourteen lines tracked, left to right, Two
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: seconds a line. Four seconds on the envelope. Glance down. Eads. Reading.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Look up. Gone. Nine minutes. Waited. One hour. Twenty past one.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Neck cold again. Fresh page blank. Four seconds green, then away.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Control one. Test. Lines. Three. Tracked. Lap down, eyes green
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: in dark. Control 2, decoy line false. Gaze stopped. 4 seconds.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Crossed out. True line. Gaze resumed. Control 3. Page turned
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: upside down. Tracked right to left. Turned back. Control 4.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Line 5, read aloud. Gaze with the words, then ahead.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Control 5. Slow close. Half past 2. Gaze to the slit. Blink. Gone.
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  Speaker 1: 20 to 3. Control 6. Ruling. 1. Underline. The cat reads.
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  Speaker 1: That is page 1. One night. 14. Lines. 6. Controls. 6. Passes.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And a margin note at the bottom. Added. Monday. In pencil.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Because pencil is for notes, too big for pen. The
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: reader reads. Blank pages hold it. Four seconds. Page two.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Headed the open book. Sunday close. Twenty to three. Notebook
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: shut slow. Pencil across cover, north to south. Monday dawn.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Half past six. Book open. Door page. Pencil parallel beside.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Line under quote. My pencil. Straight unshaken. Window shut. Door shut.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Alternatives check twice. Answer. Margin. Capitals. Noted. All door over fence. Midday.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: No twitch. Logged. Quote. Someone has to check your spelling, Hugh.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: End quote. Underlined once. Pencil. Notion beneath. Perhaps keeping means reading.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: That is page two. One morning. One line. One answer.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: And a margin note matching page one. Same pencil. Same morning.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: The minutes have a reader. The reader has a pencil.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Mind the margins. Page three headed the name. Thursday bus stop,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: we call it. Bus ringed. Sunday re-ask. Tonight at nine. Hugh.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Refused twice. Logged. Monday half-past eight. No bus. Priya nodded.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: We call it Keeper. Six letters. Mum says someone has
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: to keep the step. Shared sentence. Older Tuesday. Patel's Monday.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Older on sentences. Sources. Ringed Glover. Six inches. Three paces. Silent. Logged.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Dusk test. Front path. Keeper called once. Turn three seconds. Blink.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Rank answered twice. Heading crossed. Keeper written. Pen. Dated. Landlord
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: retired with honours. Ruling. One. Underline. Pen. The name holds.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Line beneath. Pencil. Names are forever. That is page three.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Four days. Six letters. Four witnesses. And a margin note
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: matching pages one and two. Same pencil. Same Monday. The
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: page names. the waiting ends. And now, Owl of the Week,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: regular show edition, and I will give the ceremony its
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: full honours, because this week, the birds worked under audit,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: and the audit had green eyes. The rules, for the
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: new listeners, one owl, finest of the past seven days,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: full reasoning, no favouritism. Marjorie present in every comparison, the
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: way she is present in every night, the shortlist this week, Biscuit,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: the little brown owl of number seven, digestive brown, keeper
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: of the timetable. For six nights of ten past three
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: out of seven, and one honest early night, logged and explained,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the Tuesday the cat walked, no walls, supporters have the tables.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: For three rocks, every landing, never two, never four. For
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: keeping the round while the auditor sat on the walls
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: and read the minutes, steadiness under supervision. the way professionals
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: perform when the inspection comes, the grey one. For the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Tuesday carry, holding the wall the full seven minutes and
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: leaving with the delivery, supervision concluded by carrying, briefly considered.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Briefly set aside, carrying is not keeping, and this week
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: belonged to keeping. Chairman of the Belfry, the tawny, for
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the high post, for the turn, three midnights, Timed from
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: my landing window, facing the church corner while the cat
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: sat on it. Barred from winning twice in one week
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: by the ancient rule I have just made up, witnessed
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: by the notebook, seconded by the pencil, the turn was magnificent.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: The rule is the rule. And Marjorie, Marjorie the barn owl,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: forty visits and counting, the feather on the doorstep. The
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: benchmark against which all strangeness is measured. present in every comparison,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the way she is present in every night, the way
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: she will be present in every ceremony, until this show ends.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Four candidates with cases. No easy choice. Biscuit had the timetable,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the grey one had the carry. Chairman had the height
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and the turn and the rule against it, and Marjorie
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: had the history and the feather and the patience of stone,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: waiting while the younger birds took their weeks. But the award,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: this week, goes to the bird that kept biscuit of
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: number seven owl of the week regular edition with full
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: honors for the timetable for six nights out of seven
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and one honest early for three rocks in stair rod
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: rain and lamplight alike for working the round while the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: reader read unhurried unbowed ten past three may its bin
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: be steady and its landings be soft and chairman Wherever
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: you are perched tonight, the rule stands, but so does
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: the turn. Three midnights, timed, minuted, the highest praise this
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: notebook can pay, short of the award. And Marjorie, you
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: remain the measure of all things. Even the reader knows it.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: It's slowed down for the envelope. One more piece of
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: post before we close, because the ledger grows whether I
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: am ready or not. A second letter from an old correspondent,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: from Jay in York. who wrote weeks back about foxes
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: on schedules. Fyde writes that last Tuesday, at half past
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: one in the morning, his scheduled fox came down the
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: garden path at its usual minute, on its usual business,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: and stopped. Because on the garden wall sat a cat, dark, still,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: facing the path the way cats face everything they have
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: decided about. And the fox, Jay writes, and I am
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: giving you his words exactly, quote, Waited, Hugh. End quote. Waited.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Stood on the path with its tail down while the
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: cat looked at it without moving, then stepped off the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: path onto the grass, gave the wall the full width
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: of the garden, and went round. The long way round.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Nine extra minutes on a scheduled round, logged by Jay
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: from his window with his own tea going cold. Jay
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: ends his letter with the sentence I have been turning
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: over ever since. Quote. Hugh, my fox keeps better time
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: than my trains. And it gave way to a cat
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: without being asked. End quote. Thing, my dear watcher, York
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: already sits in the file, so no new entry. But
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: your sentence about the giving way is going on the
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: open questions page beneath question four, because the foxes yield
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: on Bramble Lane and now perhaps in York too. As
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: for why, I have no ruling yet, only a notion,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: offered cheaply and with feelings. Perhaps foxes know landlords the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: way pigeons know them. Perhaps every street has something the
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: timetables step around. And Jay, about the nine minutes? Log them.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Count them. Note whether the fox makes up the time
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: or carries the delay, because delays are data too, the
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: way absences are data. Either way, write and tell me.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: The ledger grows by post, and post runs both ways now,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and J-R-T-M-S-E, if any of you ever meet, and I
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: have a feeling you might, tell each other. Hugh says hello.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: The watchers are finding each other. It was only a
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: matter of time. So here we are, at the end
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: of our fourth evening together, and I want to tell
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: you what the cat has taught me, because it completes
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: a set of five, and sets matter to men with notebooks.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: The owls taught me that the street keeps secrets until
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I am ready. The house taught me that watching might
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: be participation, that some things stand because someone stands looking.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Number seven taught me that the watched were never worried,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: that while I crept about with binoculars and logs, the
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: family had already decided I was the minutes. The margins
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: taught me that the watched read back. that six years
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: of reports went into a correspondence and not a draw.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: And the page has taught me the fifth lesson, the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: one I will carry the longest. And it is this.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Write as if read. Every line. Every ruling. Every quote
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: set apart. Because the reader is already on the wall
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: and the reader has my pencil and from tonight the
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: notebook is not written alone. The owl's got minutes. The
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: house got witness. Number seven got patience. The margins got correspondence.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: And the page gets care. The sharpest pencil, the straightest lines,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the truest words I own. Graded notebooks earn grading. This
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: one intends to pass. I came to Bramble Lane to watch.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I appear to be co-authored. Every street should have minutes.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Ours has me. And now the minutes have a reader
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: with a pencil. And I have never sharpened mine with
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: greater care. Before I go, the usual three things, plus
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: a fourth, because the reader earned it. First, thank you.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: For tonight, for last night, for the messages, for R
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: in Leeds and T in Bristol and M in Manchester
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: and S in Sheffield and E in Exeter and J
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: in York, for every listener who has checked their own
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: street since this show began and found it, I hope,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: slightly less ordinary than before. Do subscribe so tomorrow finds you,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: and do share us with the nosiest person you know. Second,
• 1:01:05
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• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Stories Edinburgh, for strangeness with an accent. And your quiet moment,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: for the stillness I never manage. Siblings, waiting patiently, the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: way siblings wait. Third, the practical. Last time tonight, brief
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: as ever, and I mean brief because the pencil of
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: practical bits has exactly one line left. If tonight was
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: worth your evening, the links in the show notes are
• 1:01:37
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• 1:01:40
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• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: early episodes and more nights like this one, with the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: notebook open and the reader on the wall. Same step,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: same keeper, keeping it. Same hue. minute in return. Done.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Practical over. The rotor holds. Fourth, the open questions page, updated,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: because the page moves whether the reader reads it or not.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: Question one. Who lives at number nine, status unchanged, eleven owls,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: seventeen callers, one brass number, zero answers, and one banana bread, eaten,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: standing up, entered, As evidence, the cat faces number nine
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: from the allotment corner on every round. Watching what? Still open.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Question two. Who runs the post, the beats, the rota,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: the weekends and the walls? Status advanced. The Tuesday tables
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: sit beside it now, early, post and carrying supervisor and
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: unturned belfry, and the supervisor question has a nominee with
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: green eyes. But who holds the rotor? Who rests the birds?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Who keeps the steps still open? Still, the biggest question
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: on the page, question three. What do the letters say? Status,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: unchanged and maddening. Not one word read. Not one envelope opened.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: The promise stands. Before this show is done, I will
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: read an owl letter with my own eyes. Or I
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: will find out exactly why I cannot. Question four. Who
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: else is watching? Answered in full and still growing. The
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: reader with a pencil, formerly entered this week. Jays giving
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: way in York filed beneath it. The dogs, silent through
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: owl hours. 41 pigeons in a ring. And a keeper
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: on a step, formerly named this week. Which brings the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: list up to date. And the date is tonight. Question five.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: What is coming closer? I reckon closer every night. The
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: flash is broke. The curtain moved. The saucer came back empty.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: The milk went untouched in rain. The book came open.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Long nights ahead. Question six. What is Bramble House? Waiting.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Not where. Not when. What? First data point in. Something
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: drinks milk. Something with table manners. Second data point pending.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: The way all Bramble House data is pending. Question 7. Retired. Gone. Clean.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Feather across. The first question on this page to close,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: and it stays closed. Question 8. WHO drank the milk.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: And what does the grey feather mean? Status advanced. The
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: Sasa Rota continues. Supporters have the tables, and the drinker
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: has edges now. But who drinks, and why feathers, and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: why rain stops it, still open. Watch this space, watch
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the milk, and you, tonight, question night. Written in capitals
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: with the date, how long has the notebook been read,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: not whether, how long. Six years of minutes, filed at
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: a desk that faces a garden that holds a wall.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: If the reading started Sunday, The correspondence is a week old.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: If it started earlier, every ruling I have underlined was
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: read before I underlined it. The pencil is sharpened. The
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: margins are watched. The question stands. And now, the reason
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: you must come back tomorrow. Because tomorrow is Tuesday. Bin night.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: And while I have been reading about readings, something has
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: been happening with the bins. They went out light, the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: way they always go out. They came back in the morning,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: the way they always come back, and one of them
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: came back heavier. The lid would not sit flat, something inside,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: shifting when the wind touched the bin, the way things
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: shift that were never thrown away by anyone on this street.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I have not opened it. I have logged it, photographed it, nowhere,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: because some evidence waits for its evening, and covered it
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: the way you cover anything pending. The cover stays until tomorrow.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: The bin stays shut until the episode. Whatever is shifting
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: in there can shift one more night, unwatched, unlocked, undisturbed.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Patience is also watching. The bins taught me that. Tomorrow
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: they teach me the rest. Tomorrow evening, same time, I
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: am going to tell you about the bins that emptied themselves.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Sleep well, keep one eye on your own street, and
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Hugh will see you at nine. Asus.