My dad is a Marxist intellectual Anna
Really
You do not seem that impressed
I am not
Why
Because there is no such thing as a Marxist intellectual
I disagree Anna
Marxism has never been proved to work
My dad is an intellectual
I am not disputing that
But as an intellectual he must see through Marx’s ideas
They might work on the planet Zog but not here
In Ventnor
Nothing works in Ventnor
Do you know that Marx visited this town late in his life and walked in the area when he could
No
It is not much celebrated by the town the odd plaque here the odd plaque there
Unlike Tennyson at Freshwater
Spot on
I wonder what he must of thought as he would have realised how ill he was
Do you think that he thought he had failed
That is hard to say
In a perfect world it might have had a chance but this is not a perfect world
I prefer Tussy Marx
So do I
She destroyed herself because of a man
So many women do just think of Sylvia and the poetry she might have written
What a waste
What would you do if I met someone else
Meet someone else
Would it destroy you
No I would be incredibly sad but it would not destroy me
You
The same
Do you like the island
Yes
I used to come her as a child and on one visit Eleanor gave me a postcard
That was nice
It was of the concrete island at the bottom of the hill
I rather like it as it is so original
It has not changed
Well on this postcard there was a young girl of about five or six in the most beautiful dress
I adored that girl as if she was me
She resembled an angel
Did you ever meet her
Heavens no at a guess the photograph was taken in the early 1960s
But she was my beacon and this is why I love the island so much
Do you know where we are going
Not really I do not know Ventnor well
The railway station is now closed
That helps
It closed in the mid sixties due to problems with the tunnel but Dad told me so much about it I thought it would be nice to visit it
Uphill
I know
Are we lost
I fear so
Nobody should get lost in Ventnor
Even Marx
It is so quiet
Sundays are always quiet in November
Anna
Yes
There are a couple of people by the bus shelter they might be local
Where
Over there near the estate agents
They look like visitors
What makes you think that
It is just the way they are dressed
He is all scruffy chic and she is just beautiful I do not think that I have seen a woman as beautiful as her for a long time
Would you go across as you are more familiar with the island
Do you know the way
Yes it is straight up the road then up another hill
You look like you have seen a ghost
I think I have
In what way
It was the woman I felt that I had seen her before
You might have seen them around town
No it is deeper than that I feel that I have met her
In your dreams as she is so beautiful who knows I might be jealous
No I know her from somewhere
Did you find out anymore
Her husband called her Jane
Nothing else
No