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Yeah, in some ways it's kind of more for you though than anyone else. It totally is, yeah. Until you're, you know, rich and famous and and then it's for the readers but to yeah not at my stage. Amazing. And that brings us to the desert island. So, um Joe, if you were stranded on a desert island with a single book, which book do you hope that it would be? I had to think hard about this because obviously it's ah the thought of only having one book to read would be devastating. And I wondered if you'd allow me to cheat with a Kindle, but I assume that's not playing the game properly. So in the end... Kindle with all the books. That's what you travel with, right? So that's where I'm most likely to end up on a desert island. But um anyway, I think in the end I decided I would have to go with Test of the Durvilles by Thomas Hardy, which is... Okay. I actually did read it again, we haven't read it for years, and I did pick it up again recently, and thought, gosh, this is quite dense compared to, you know, in quite slow paced compared to the sort of novels that were we're very much used to these days. um But um it's beautifully written, the story is heartbreaking, and there's so much to it. And I studied it at a level, not as a text, but around I was doing a different Thomas Hardy novel, and I sort of read it then and then I studied it at university when I did an English literature degree and found out all sorts of little things about it. And so it has a sort of a place in my heart, I suppose. I also, I think I read it as a teen over as well, because I remember a particularly bizarre um day with, I told my little sister all about it. And then we had a weird baptism of her doll, which I think was a bit reminiscent of the seceded in Tesla de Vils where they baptized the baby because he's going to die. So um clearly it's been creeping through all elements of my life. So I think I would