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'Monty Ding Dong' lol!I've always loved the man. And not as middle class as he appears. He did his A levels on an evening whilst working manual jobs. He was on the dole in the 90s after his business went bust, and suffers with depression. He's the right kind of eccentric for me. I love your novel, 'The Sweet Track'. It was the first time I connected a person I'd met with A1 work and thought, it is possible. I don't know what's so special about the middle class on a page? Mostly I find their world sanitised and tiresome. I'd write something including middle class characters, but what about the untidy spots, where the magic and music sings with the wallflowers along the yard walls. Without those poetic truffles we wouldn't have Chekhov.

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