The Elder Statesman -- Peter Leyland
The Elder Statesman Now if that heading sounds like the title of a play by Henrik Ibsen, well you’re on the right track, and if the first incident I describe sounds a bit like the part in that Jon Fosse novel, The Other Name , where he gets lost in the snow with the dog, Bragi, but is rescued by a woman who tells him that she knows him already, then you’re even warmer. Anyway, I’ll start with the first bit, begin at the beginning as the storyteller tells us. It started with a hold-up at Gatwick, you know, where the plane sits on the tarmac for a couple of hours, interspersed with frequent announcements by the pilot in ...