"Mike Rogers - gibson interview" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gibson Walter)

35 minutes.

MR: So you've never been to Ireland before?

WG: No. no... and it's a, you know, in a sense I've been reading about it
all my life... because it's a, you know...

MR: Joyce? the Modernists?

WG: Yeah. Such a literate, yeah, such a literary land. So it all seems...
vaguely familiar. But sort of more remarkable... and that's always the
way, you know. Sort of the details... the details that do it. That you
couldn't have imagined.

MR: You came to Europe when you were in your teens, or just out of your
teens, didn't you?

WG: Well, how old was I?

MR: The Grand Tour. Around 20?

WG: Yeah. Yeah. About 20, 21... We couldn't afford... we couldn't afford to
stay anywhere that had anything remotely like hard currency. So we
landed in... we landed in London and... and you know, like a round trip
on the subway was sort of... sort of, the base. So we only had a little
time there and then...

MR: So what's it like now, travelling around in hotels like this?

WG: Oh, it's... I've had a couple of years to get used to it. It's sort of
a gradual thing.

MR: What was it you called it? The Rubber Chicken Circuit?

WG: Yeah, that was actually a good break... breakthrough. Because there
were all those vr... there was a whole string of vr festivals that were
funded by various European governments.

MR: I know. Lot's of people kept stopping over, Myron Kreuger and all...

WG: Yeah. Those people were all bouncing... bouncing around. But we got to
get to Barcelona, Venice, Linz Austria, Den Haag, probably a couple
more I can't...

MR: You're more used to it then? You can handle it now?

WG: Yeah, I can.

MR: You don't feel like... the dissolution?