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A cluttered mind and an empty desk.

@ossacordis / ossacordis.tumblr.com

Doctor of something or other. Long term tumblr person. Human.

Hi Neil,

Do you have any fun stories about Terry Jones? Kinda feeling his loss a lot at the moment.

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Terry Jones was the only person I ever interviewed as a young journalist who got me drunk. I was 23. He asked what I'd like to drink when I arrived and I said "coffee". He though about that for a moment and decided I would prefer Chablis, and a few moments later he produced a bottle of Chablis twice the size of a normal wine bottle and then proceeded to pour it into both of us while I interviewed him.

The interview was enormously fun (Terry was in the process of writing Labyrinth at the time.) After the interview the photographer and I went out for a pizza and I remember heading to the toilets and then lying on the floor while the room spun around, holding on to the floor because otherwise I might fall off.

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Photo taken of me during the photos after the interview concluded...

Jonathan's world is getting ever smaller

  • On May 8th he found the door of the Castle locked
  • On May 16th he learned not to venture outside his own suites
  • On May 28th it was the door of the library
  • And today (June 17th) he has been locked into his own room

The net is drawing closer around him. Of course, all that's an illusion and the trap already closed a month and a half ago. When the Count can surprise him at his toilet, or undress him and put him to bed, his world of movements cannot really be said to extend outside his own skull. And that only so long as he does not go mad.

It's like Dracula is confining him into smaller and smaller spaces week by week, until all that's left is a coffin.

Maybe one of those nice boxes out in the courtyard, even...