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rritable way, John has assured
his daughter he'll never remarry and that the chateau will be
# S2 x- n* @* A8 s0 dhers, but he refuses to put anything in writing.
That background anxiety will probably be resolved.
9 m+ m  k6 c; j8 q  c6 H; i$ kAnother more forceful reason why they've kept up their
summer visits to the chateau is because Daisy and Theo used
; w% B0 j# E9 }$ `. q8 }: Oto insist - those were the old days, before John and Daisy
fell out. They loved their grandfather and considered his silly
3 ~8 _9 M2 f/ Y8 y* Y3 s+ imoods proof of his difference, his greatness - a view he rather
% F- g- O9 @  x- ~6 c2 F1 C3 |8 lshared himself. He doted on them, never raised his voice
  O  |/ B  y  _% g5 [against them, and hid from them his worst outbursts. From
the beginning, he considered himself - rightly as it's turned
out - a figure in their intellectual development. Once it
became clear that Theo was never going to take more than
a polite interest in books, John encouraged him at the piano
and taUGht him a simple boogie in C. Then he bought him
an acoustic guitar and lugged up from the cellars cardboard
8 Q# p. C/ c7 E: V. fboxes of blues recordings on heavy old 78s as well as LPs,
and made tapes which arrived in London in regular packages.
9 B% G3 ], V+ s: f  l  oOn Theo's fourteenth birthday, his grandfather drove
1 g0 g2 s' ?5 M* T# c7 T& r  H8 ^& Zhim to Toulouse to hear John Lee Hooker in one of his last
appearances. One summer evening after dinner, Grammaticus
and Theo performed 'St James' Infirmary' under a brilliant
: ]) W8 J% ~8 G* ^( T8 @sky of stars, the old man tipping back his head and warbling
in a husky American accent that made Rosalind tearful. Theo,
still only fourteen, improvised a sweet