2023-11-29
31 分钟Anna Martin: When Sonja Falck was 26,
she fell for a much older man named Colin,
before she even met him.
It started when Sonja rented a room in Colin's house in London,
while he was away teaching English literature in the US.
The first thing Sonja saw when she walked into his home was —
Sonja Falck: Books, books, books everywhere.
Just walls lined with bookshelves.
Poetry, novels, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, linguistics.
Anna Martin: You're beaming.
Sonja Falck: Just anthropology, health.
And also, what I noticed was nearly all the books that I owned,
he had copies of as well.
Anna Martin: Sonja had grown up in South Africa.
Then, after getting her degree in psychology,
she'd spent the last few years traveling and staying in hostels.
She got the sense that Colin was a traveler, too,
from the art he collected.
Sonja wanted to meet the man whose house she felt so at home in.