Three hours is the length of Peter Jackson’s 2005 version of King Kong.
Yesterday I spent three hours in a seminar discussing my text. Seven senior researchers poked and proded, criticised and question me and my text. The time and energy they spent on preparing and then discussing with me is part of my learning experience and I cannot thank them enough for their energy.
The result?
A new deadline – what else? The reworked text shall be ready by the 21 April – which is exactly 307 years after Jean Racine’s death and 96 years after Mark Twain’s death. What does it all mean? Nothing. Except that I have work to do.
And a public defence almost certainly in mid-June!