The entertainment program on the ferry to Newcastle has begun. A cover band plays happily. A young couple sits in front of us. She chatters incessantly. He just looks ahead silently and somewhat stoically. Every now and then he nods in agreement. He drinks his beer, unperturbed and absent-minded. The band plays Bob Dylan’s ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’. After the first line of text ‘Close your eyes. Close the door,” he notes, as if out of nowhere: “I would do it the other way around.”
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