Wonderfully put. As someone who teaches for a living (scary thought, I know), I’m often struck by the fact that at least some students students are much more willing to embrace eccentricity in older people (“She’s really cool!”) than in people their own age (“That’s pretty weird.”). It’s like they want to be cool eccentrics when they’re 75, but conformists when they’re 20, and I’m just not real sure it works like that.

So I subject people to Ivor Cutler and Nimrod Workman and Janie Hunter and hope for the best :-).

You’re very welcome! I believe that a wider appreciation of Cutler will engender more kindness, wonder and eccentricity in the world