SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IN THE BOOKSHOP
Significant coincidence–that might sound a bit vague.
But I want to find out if two random events can be so tightly linked together that it can’t be a coincidence.
A career as an artist isn’t an option for me, that’s for sure.
For this I’ll need paper, a pen, an easel, somebody I don’t know who will freely choose a book from this bookshop.
Christina, there are tens of thousands of books in here.
I want you to go and fetch a book that you have powerful memories of, something that moved you.
Please take your time, because I’ll be drawing something on this paper, you see.
And when you’ve found the book, simply come back here and tell me you have a book, OK?
Well…
I’ll go over here.
Here!
Here I come!
Oh! That was fast!
What should I do? Hide it?
You can sit down in this chair for now.
What book did you choose, by the way?
OK, good book!
Yes, absolutely!
Start turning through it–sooner or later you’ll arrive at a page where you feel an urge to stop.
Right, I’m there!
OK!
Now, I’d like you to read the first half of that page, just to get an idea of what’s happening there.
Got it? OK, I’ll stop drawing then.
Could you briefly recount what’s going on?
He just found out that his father has cancer.
Where are they?
He’s at home on the couch, under a woolly blanket.
A blanket? There’s just one person there?
It’s the father and the son.
OK.
So one of them has a blanket, what’s the other person doing?
He’s sitting there talking to him.
Is he doing something particular in relation to the first person?
He’s fetching him tea and roasted almonds.
Fetching tea and roasted almonds, and they’re talking.
Yes.
Now, I’m not great at drawing, but is this some kind of likeness?
Absolutely. Absolutely!
Completely right!
That’s incredible!
I’m incredibly impressed. Fantastic!
I know about him, I’ve seen a show about him.
So I know it’s some kind of mind reading, or something like that.
But it’s incredible that he can figure that out!
