Oct 11, 2019
Update
Have chance of more p/t work to make up hours. Phew…
Talk on physionotrace in York, for Alliance Française, went well, though I had to challenge some misconceptions about Max, given audience mostly older people not up-to-date with recent scholarship. One man referred to him as “a nasty little man”, based on some outdated work by John Julius Norwich (not a French Rev expert – book came out last year, but it’s pop-level stuff by an octogenarian aristocrat, not based on modern research).
Have drawn a line under (and through) some old friendships from university days. Sad, but time to move on. Thought we’d be friends for ever, but they want to put an international border between us, through my family, my life and sense of self.
