'Is there anybody there?' Literature and the Art of Listening.

Dr Who fell in love the other week with a girl who thought he lived in a fireplace. The girl grew up, became Madame Pompadour, and rechristened her space travelling Prince ‘My lonely Angel’.In recognising her Travelling Angel’s eternal solitude, she alsoguaranteed her love’s immortality – even if she herself failed tosurvive the episode!