Brian Sewell and Map

The Telegraph has an interview with art critic Brian Sewell … inter alia, some ClassCon:

[…] I travelled in Turkey at great length for a number of years and always carried the same knapsack (pictured). In 1987, while following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, I found an abandoned puppy with a dislocated shoulder and broken foreleg. She was terribly dehydrated and I couldn’t leave her, so I jettisoned as many belongings as I could and carried her in my knapsack for another 600 miles. Eventually I sent her back to England and she was my dog for 12 years. I christened her Mop because I found her on a site named after an Ancient Greek seer called Mopsus.[…]

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