Does that mean that there'll be a load of students walking round wearing t-shirts with his gurning mug on them, while not knowing anything about him?
"And I even had that poster of Che Guevara on my wall at home, to annoy my mum. It backfired.
She thought it was Robert Lindsay. And then when I got to college, there were people better at that then me.
Know what I mean, there were people that really meant it. And I was thinking, “Oh God, was I like that?”
I’ll give you an example. I did Philosophy. And after a few weeks, you had to choose your options for the three years.
Compulsory subjects were Logic and Greek Philosophy, and you had to choose about six others.
And I chose Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Morality.
And there was a Marxism option. And I thought, that’d be great, I’ve always been interested in that.
And it was only a small department, about 25 people. The tutors were all out and you had to queue up and
take the thing you wanted. And I looked over at the queue for Marxism… And there were ten people in this queue.
Three of them were wearing berets.
And I thought, God, I can’t spend three years in a room with what I used to call at the time - “****s.”
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