THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ROBERT WYATT

It’s difficult to call it more than coincidence. The driver hired to take me south of London, to the home of the person I’m to interview, spends an extraordinary amount of time telling me how apartheid is inherently good— how the black people “down there” can’t quite take care of themselves yet, that they’re extremely violent themselves, what are they complaining about?—and much more of that talk, talk I’m not used to hearing in England.