LK: Sir Arthur you have traveled widely
SA: Yes I better to travel widely than to arrive if you understand Mia several widens the well as they say in the Sahara. “Arrive arrive arrive arrive 10 Dublin’s fair city but I’m short answer to your question I suppose disease is yes thank you young well
LK: What’s your favorite place in the world?
SA: I think I’d have to say the the Galapagos Islands extraordinary creatures live there in the Galapagos beautiful little two-foot and millipede and then but one about particularly lodges in my mind is the armadillos Lumos habaneros which are extraordinary to see there they swim in formation off the coast they’re absolutely dazzling
LK: What is the cause of their luminosity phosphorescence pink paint yes no one has paint that’s put on them by whom by the painter bird these are birds which ones a year fly over to Latin America dive into huge vets of luminous paint and then fly all the way back and work themselves off on the armadillosi.
LK: It does sound a little unlikely Sir Arthur if I may say so.
SA: Alot of things in nature unlikely I mean who can imagine an animal called the prottle entirely made out of curtain ringsi?
LK: Does such an animal exist?
SA: No, that’s what I said, who could imagine it!
LK: Now for your fourth gift certainly
SA: Yes I would like four enormous larks please.
LK: Well I’m very sorry to tell you Sir Arthur that that has proved impossible at such short notice. We have in fact got you four calling birds.
SA: well calling birds they are no bloody used to anybody. I ordered four enormous larks and you come up with calling Birds I mean calling Birds another line enormous larks I mean I was all geared up to reminisce about various things and frankly I insisted on four enormous larks with very good reason because who knows Lots we did trigger off figure off memories memories of I don’t know what I mean even though the four and almost locked out here on the lawn and they would they would trigger off a memory but around four enormous actually I’m along like they’re all on the lawn buffelgrass and anything it triggers often sort of memory of just looking out of the window announcing the lawn completely denuded of laps which is not as all of the I want to talk about at all as with each calling birds they they remind me of is it’s how we sort of have these four enormous larks here and how annoying it is I mean it just seems to reach the complete impasse okay you where I believe in the twenties in Maupin ass well in Paris in the 20s oh yes in the trend is embarrassed with all the will the locks in more panache is it’s a bit like London in the 60th actually and in black-and-white and without subtitles I was very poor rather pathetically weasel moustache and I was absolutely homeless I was young and I I desperately wanted to paint you knocked in the first door you came to yes and I painted it there’s no answer with the door swung open and there in the center of the room was his most peculiar melting bed draped over an ironing board I had stumbled into the garret of Salvador Dali fascinating yeah what looked like a melting mattress over an ironing board was in fact his landlady met I’m shipping your dolly himself had to leave in a hurry due to an accident with a burning Doral silly fool he could never look after them and later you met Edith Piaf yes in that very room I remember I was talking to her on this particular occasion she said to me sure no regrets are real and I said “oh come on, Edith there must be something”. She said absolutely not apart from possibly other players agreeing to come to this room this very evening.
you know I’d matter at matter for honest you lived with Piaf in Paris for some years I think no I said that the F in Paris for some sevens but you did know the surrealist will oh yes I loved the surrealist very nice fellow beautifully well behaved people in a bizarre kind of Magritte was a pain in the ass there with his boiled eggs on lamb peasant dolly a little bit unreliable never showed up of course but the rest of them were great bunch of mates great bunch of mates I was very much part of the floppy floppy knowing that they moved in.
LK: What?
SA: I was very much part of the Profi propping ninth ninth that they moved in.
LK: Of the circle they moved in?
SA: No no no they idea of also release moving round and round in circles ludicrous comes another picture which is completely surreal no they didn’t move in a circle they moved and a hot water bibble.
LK: A hot water bottle?
SA: Dibble. They despised hot water models wouldn’t have him in the house bourgeois they said apart from Magritte Magritte had a hot water bottle he was to boil his eggs in it whenever he needed one for a lamppost or whatever we all disliked him intensely why we thought it was a bit mad frightful little man his bottom
LK: Thank you sir Arthur
SA: If you just if you have the larks here then I could remember something all I can remember is you didn’t bring the latter five