You want to calibrate exactly when you go to eavesdrop on this drunken conversation between Arthur C Clarke, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkien. You don’t want to get there too early. Two drinks is too soon; five drinks is too many. You want to arrive somewhere between three and four ales apiece: that’s probably the peak point for Awesome Drunken Conversations.
…What? Recording awesome stuff on the sly is the only really ethical use of time travel that I can think of. I mean, you don’t want to actually change anything, right? …RIGHT?
When Arthur C. Clarke & J.R.R. Tolkien went to the pub & got pissed. From Francis Spufford's brilliant Backroom Boys pic.twitter.com/LcR9Ij6Qsf
— Rowland White (@RowlandWhite) September 11, 2016
*throes money at computer screen.*
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I need to read this transcript.
Sadly, we’ve since learned that Arthur C. Clarke *was* a very wicked person.
(It’s pretty hard to call an unrepentant paedophile anything nicer.)
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Still, this would make my list of things to see.
But it might not beat out Dave Mustaine as lead guitar for Metallica.
I’ve been hearing stuff on both sides of that topic for almost twenty years now and I’m *still* not sure whether Clarke was guilty of that.