Eddie Izzard spoke about his role in the new Victoria and Abdul film in the Guardian.  Eddie’s zest and curiosity of life are revealed.  He dares to ask the bigger questions “What made us who we are?”  “What brought us to here?”  Click on the image below for a trailer of Victoria and Abdul

Visiting Culloden recently and walking around the scene of the bloody 1746 battle between the 25 year old Prince Charlie supporters and the government supporters led by the 25 year old Duke of Cumberland, it’s tempting to ask the same questions.  Some people make sense of life by constantly facing new challenges and always being outside the zone of “the expected ” as with Eddie Izzard.   Others like the author and journalist Robert McCrum explore the incidents of their lives and make sense of them through words.

Robert McCrum had a stroke when he was a young man, just brimming with life and making his name. Since then he’s been fascinated by neuroscience and the brain.  “It’s an enthralling and mysterious subject and one that encourages a literary response because it raises very big existential questions about the nature of thought.
We’re storytelling people, aren’t we?  We default to that mode when we’re making sense of otherwise chaotic data.  A good actor can still a room of boisterous kids because they’ll be gripped by the music of the words.  Words evoke memories and thoughts, put us in touch with ourselves. And that’s consoling.”
Robert McCrum the Writer of The Story of English