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 This is part 2 of the interview with my dear old pal Norman Mounter. After speaking about his interests in Part 1 he goes on to talk about his soon to be released novel 'Broken Oaths.' In Jessica Gems once again from the interview she has taken out some of the phrases and language which was naturally used and has formed some very testing language questions for yours truly. Transcription of Interview: Speaker 1 (00:00): What about language? Because I know you've got a real interest in language as well. Speaker 2 (00:04): Yeah. I think that stems from much later on. I mean, when I was at school, I loved English. I loved creative writing. I loved reading English, but we were never really taught what I would call the discipline of grammar of rhetoric, all of those kinds of old school subjects. So it was all grammar school subjects where you'd have to learn about proper use of grammar. And that's something that I've, I've had to pick up on my own, but actually it's a fascinating area because you really start to learn the power of how you can use English to be basically most effective in what you want to say. And it's not, it's often the case that you don't need. A lot of words, you just need the right choice of word in an appropriate style that obviously suits you and also is easy to read. And grammar gives you that grammar has many other elements to it apart from spelling and punctuation things. Speaker 2 (01:03): And one of the things really interests me is the, is the word history. So understanding where a word has come from, whether it be, uh, particularly in English, whether it be through the Latin, from the Romans or the Anglo-Saxon, or, you know, even the kind of Celtic derivation, but that's always been fascinating to me. And I think that partly comes from my passion for Tolkien's Lord of the rings. Well, Tolkien's legendarium is very much based on, on a mythology that has strong links with language. You can look at any character or word in Tolkien, and there will be an underlying etymology to that word. You know, he doesn't just pluck them out of air and don't forget, this is a professor of Anglo-Saxon that actually invented his own languages. He invented Elvish, for example, you know, so that influence on me cannot be understated because he was, and still is to be honest, a massive influence on my life. Speaker 1 (02:07): Right. So, so we've sort of touched on your, your interest, especially interested, let's say, cause I know you're interested in lots of things. It's not just those three things, but that's related to the new book that's coming out. You have your, but it's not your first book, but you've, you know, you've been working on this book for a while and I thought you could tell the story where this story came from. What is the story of the new book? Speaker 2 (02:31): The new book is, as you rightly say, it is a fusion of all of these passions of mine, the English, the writing, the history, but also the medicine. It really stems from a period of my life where I was reading a lot about the third Reich and the Nazis and particularly the Holocaust. And I began to delve into a lot of Holocaust literature, particularly firsthand accounts, people that have survived, um, the camps and really, uh, created a huge mark on me. I began to feel more and more hurt by it. And in a way, particularly because I, prior to this point, no one had really ever told me about it. I was never talked about this at school, for example. And I remember seeing Schindler's list in 1994 and being very moved by that. But since then, I've constantly been interested in this part of one other called modern history. Speaker 2 (03:30): And at that point come, I can recall, you know, giving you a message saying, John, I've got, this is idea. It's coming out of me. I'm going to start off on this holocaust train. And I'm going to just see, see where it leads me and the book in that sense, just flowed out of me, probably only taking me about three months to write if that, and it literally just flowed out. It wasn't in any order, but what it did do for me, it was a kind of purge. It was a catharsis of all of this stuff that had built up inside me over the years of research. And it did help me come to terms with some of the stuff I've written, but it also enabled me to, uh, particularly in the context of my medical training to get inside the head of my main character, my main character is called Dr. Speaker 2 (04:17): Joseph Sarkany. And he is based on a real life pathologist from Hungary, whose name was Miklos Nyizsli. And he wrote a book just after the war called Auschwitz and I witness doctor's account. And he talks about his time working in the crematorium for the infamous Yosef Mengele who had built within the main crematorium, his own laboratory, his own post-mortem room for what I would only describe as pseudo scientific kind of experiments. So again, it was this idea of looking at the medical and the pathological aspects of...
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