MASTER OF KNOTS
“So we were in Napier and there was a soundshell across from the hotel, and suddenly we heard this booming voice. It was Vaughan, standing there, singing opera.”
“Vaughan wanted to teach me how to kitesurf. I was trying to control the kite, and there was a gust. I fell face-first into the sand. My vision was all blurry, and it was only later that I realised, I’d lost my glasses. We spent an hour looking for them.”
“There’s a story about a stripper, too. But it’s actually a nice story, not what you’d think it is.”
, professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, winner of the prestigious Fields a patriot who remained passionately committed to New Zealand, even though he left the country in his twenties.
