Yeah,

where should I begin with this? So part of it, I think, with the delusion actually comes from my mother.

And she always told me and my sister that we could do whatever we wanted.

And I don't think that is something to overlook because that internal voice for me was always there because she had given that to me as a child.

And that's quite unusual, actually, because I think most writers, artists of any kind, if you say that's what you want to do, adults will often tell you that you can't or that it's not realistic or that you won't make money.

And it's not that they're wrong.

But that voice will then continue in your head over and over.

which

Right now, though, let's get on with it.

Yeah, exactly.

But it also felt like very, very cool to me at that age and like far off, completely out of reach.

You know, it was the US where I'd never been and just, yeah.

And then I started reading stories and I don't know that I ever really like connected to any in a particular way, but I just found them really interesting.

I think there's kind of a coldness to a lot of New Yorker short stories.

And that was not something that I was used to.

What do you think are the qualities that those stories all share?

Hmm

... partly because they both had such influential and powerful friends within Ireland at that time.

And after that they just like went, went about their business.

It doesn't seem like anything else was kind of said about it, certainly nothing that we have in court records or in history.

She married again and again, and then in 1317 a new bishop came to Kilkenny, and he had been in France in Avignon with the Pope.

And this was a time of flux within the church's understanding of witchcraft.

Understanding is a kind word to give to it.

... is gonna be good for all of us.