Friday, 19th February, Union Sq, NY: feedback on first brainscan results with the Drs
We head back to my friend’s flat to do the interviews. The first will be Helen and Lucy talking us through the results of the previous scan, the second an interview with just Helen by Sue. We’re set to spend all day with Sue and John, with them filming just us. So this is just the start.
It’s difficult to write about the first interview because the aforementioned fellow who I feel real attachment to won’t let me ‘fess up the results of the first set of tests, housed in the famous envelope. So you’ll just have to wait for the book/the documentary for that one.
But the interview with Helen is totally fascinating. Not least because Sue, the Canadian documentary producer, is fantastic, drawing the extremely good Helen on questions about why marriage as an institution still exists at all if divorce is at an all time high, and if general confidence in the institution should appear to be fading. Helen, the biological anthropologists, talks to humans’ need to couple up. It lasts about an hour, and (given that it is 1am and we have been sitting in a plane waiting in vain to take off in heavy snow for 4 hours) I can’t remember much of it. But I’m delighted to say that we have every single minute on tape so I don’t need to feel guilty about dodgy grey matter. Again, it’ll make the book…
It’s around now that I start to feel rubbish. Really rubbish. Like little-kid-gets-flu rubbish. This feeling with last for the next 5 days.
