Documents on the ‘This one gets the red bin,’ calls out the Black official to a colleague stacking up the X-ray machine bins. ‘He’s a Special, the Black adds. [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] September 8, 2008 (Monday) Key West (Florida) NORWAY has invited me to speak at a literary festival in May next year, all expenses paid and a fee. That’s nice. I am writing to their embassy in London first, though, to inquire if there are objections.
I do not want another misunderstanding like when those Vienna “students” invited me to speak. Three p.m a lengthy phone call from Daughter Jessica in Sloane Street I say I will be back in London on Wednesday. “I am looking forward to seeing you,” I say, and she says, “Me too.” A Johnny H. writes from England: “Jolly good to hear the historian David Irving on the recent BBC Radio 4 programme. ‘Torpedo Running’ – a wonderful phrase which I distinctly remember from the book about the forgery.
Sincere regards and keep on writing and broadcasting!” I did not hear the programme myself, as I was in Denver. I will post an audio file of it when the BBC sends me one. Around one a.m., the winds outside the cottage are already picking up [Hurricane “Ike”]: strong, but not really hurricane strength. September 9, 2008 (Tuesday) Key West – Miami (Florida) – A LOUD gale is bending the trees behind the cottage. The sky is dark, and the Internet is down, so I cannot get emails before I leave.
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