sussex
On Thursday I went to a symposium held at the University of Sussex. The topic was mildly related to what I am working on, but I thought hearing different approaches may be helpful. Plus, a small display of the Travers collection was arranged, to which the organiser described in the e-mail that it would be 'a day of fun'. As usual, the train was delayed on the way there and back. There was a signal failure and a power failure, and the terribly, terribly British thing to do is to sit in silence and read your book. Also it was my first time to be on a split up train, when at a certain stop the front carriages will head to a different destination--very scary indeed. For the first few minutes I was picturing myself in the wrong coach and then chasing the departing train just like in the movies. People-wise, I met a person who used to work in the book trade and another who was a theatre director. Not saying it is the beginnng of a friendship, but maybe I shall see them again.