… to the last eight years of my life. And it has taken me nearly a year to get round to finishing it, what with that pesky thesis getting in the way. Anyway, in the vacuum-like calm of the post-thesis lull, I finally got round to tuning back into Radio 4 and picking up my Stabilo again.
Radcliffe Camera, Pen and Ink on paper
The Radcliffe Camera, affectionately known as the ‘Rad Cam’, is one of the most iconic buildings of Oxford University. It is a reading room of the Bodleian Library, being chiefly the home of antiquated law and sociological texts as far as I know. As a result, I, as a scientist, was treated only to the subterranean delights of the Racliffe Science Library, and none so internally or externally picturesque as the Rad Cam. Nevertheless, as an undergraduate I found several excuses to work in there whilst revising for finals. The silence in there is oppressive, and personally not conducive to concentration, as I contemplated the changing pitch in readers’ footsteps as the perused the shelf. At least I went there, and I spent many more hours working on it, than I ever spent working in it.
