TJW: Every now and then, perhaps every few weeks, I end up asking how you feel about time. It baffles you, this strange question—it baffles me too. Perhaps that’s why I keep asking you—maybe it’s not that I’m searching for an answer that I cannot find, it’s that I don’t want to be alone in my confusion. It feels as if the past decade, but particularly this year, time has receded in a tide, never to break back on land. I don’t know where I’ve been.

BB: I understand the confusion. I think my understanding of time has changed, I don’t know why that happened or how. Does that relate to my experience as a man who was imprisoned for six years or does that relate to my experience as a man who migrated to another part of the world? Sometimes I think when you move from a place to another place that it impacts on your understanding of time, it seems time goes faster when you’ve moved elsewhere.