Omg, I love this interview 🤩

1:39:09 There's a classic Czechoslovak fairytail movie from 1982 called "Sůl nad zlato" (literally "Salt over gold", "Salt more valuable/precious than gold") which uses exactly the same storyline as the professor is describing. I had no idea there was such a pre-existing folk story, or the connection to King Lear. And the fact that the professor just casually brought it up during this conversation was totally unexpected and fascinating 😅🤯

Back in the 1970s I went to a very traditional schlool and one day found myself in the Headmaster's study for some absurd infraction of the rules. On being asked to give an account of myself I merely asked for permission to express myself 'through the medium of dance.' Can you believe for this 'insolence' I was subjected to 'six of the best'? Thank heavens we have moved in from that sort of thing and the arts are somewhat more respected.

Greek poet Archilochus that says "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing" (That bit was copy-pasted from Google.) I'll just add as an aside that surely the hedgehog pursues things 'hoggedly' - ok, I'll get my coat!

In a lot of music genres we have lost ambition and creative confidence

I'll be watching this later.

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