00:00...most 30 years ago, and so the old book and collection of notes I found had, in the eyes of
00:04the law, been mine all this time.
00:08My father's instructions were to burn the documents, raise no further questions.
00:12But that was his error. No man's immune to the shameful trappings of curiosity, and my humanity got the better
00:18of me.
00:19The university I taught at was world-renowned for two things, physics and linguistics.
00:24I represented the first, and the man who stood for the second was stumped by my recent acquisition.
00:30The book was indecipherable. The notes, however, showed a location somewhere in uninhabited northern Greenland.
00:39It took me almost a year to look at the last flight I'd ever taken.
00:43As I watched civilisation disappear along with Heathrow, I realised my father had disappeared three decades ago, almost to the
00:50day.
00:51And I considered it in turn what it was that I was living behind.
00:57We landed on a strip of ice of three feet wide, and with...
01:00...
01:05You
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