My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

My master's degree was in English literature.

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose