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  • 1976, an event, the discovery of the megamouth shark and the end of reality

    1976, an event, the discovery of the megamouth shark and the end of reality

    On the 15th of November, 1976, a US Navy research vessel found a new fish. In principle, I have no problem with that. Oceans are big, fish are small, new stuff is going to turn up now and again. But what they found fifty years ago was a fish so stupid-looking that it bends philosophies…

  • 1976, a place, Walsall

    1976, a place, Walsall

    I was born in the Manor Hospital, Walsall, at about eight o’clock in the morning. I had no opinions on the town at the time. It’s not very famous, Walsall. It’s one of the few towns with a league football club that people seem not to have heard of. It was briefly ‘Europe’s Fattest City’…