The Specialist is a true piece of American humour. Written in 1929 by Charles 'Chic' Sale. It is a book that I have had forever thinking it was the only copy in the world. I decided to read it because it is out of Copyright - I hope (I did research it) and because it is an early essay on the depth of thought required to design and build something functional. It is a story about a champion privy builder called Lem Putt who takes great pride in his work. I read it in a special kind of monotone due to me being under the weather and in the middle of a Christmas funk malaise. Anyway, it’s good for 15mins.

Episode 3 (next week) is on the Light (you are not supposed to know what this means). It is explicitly and directly watch related so should balance the books in favour of horology. 

I think that after a gentle re-wording this little book could be written by me as an explanation of Schofield Watch Co. :-)

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