Asteroid 8347...Lallaward. The wife of Dawkins has an asteroid named after her. This is a gesture that at the very least attempts to capture the celestial radiance of her soul. A befitting gift for the bearer of such a luminescent smile. But it is inadequate; she requires more still. Her inquisitive eyes, her effortless grace and her nubile body prevent a fading old man like myself from total collapse. An asteroid is not enough; Lalla brings worlds to life. She is a star. Her brilliance has burned itself into me. I look at pictures of her rarely, for I am overcome by her. I am terrified that seeing her in the flesh would be like staring into the sun - such an intense beauty would surely send a mere man like myself to blindness. But if I should go blind from seeing her, I pray that her image is forever seared across what once I did see. And that which has been lost from me over these passing dark years of my life would finally create a found man. However, she is a woman of such magnitude that only in the cosmos of Dawkins does she deserve to shine.
In our world, it is claimed that she is best remembered as the second actress to play the Time Lady Romana (Romanadvoratrelundar) in the British television program ‘Doctor Who.’ But for the sceptics, the realists, and indeed, in the history of our species; it shall be proclaimed that she was the wife of Dawkins.
Writer Douglas Adams introduced Lalla to Dawkins at Adams’ 40th birthday party. Lalla and Dawkins married later that year in 1992. For better or worse, Adams’ fiction will be consigned to but a footnote in comparison to what history will recognise as his greatest achievement; that of leading her to Dawkins.
Lalla has testified to the Dawkins encounter almost as though it was part of a divine plan: “It terrifies me, the sort of touch- and-go of it - what if I hadn't gone to that party? Luck of that kind so hangs in the balance; it's such a minute thing. If my father hadn't said, 'Go on, go out', I really don't know what my life would be like now. I try not to think about it too much. It's too frightening.”
Her impish and definitively feminine curiosity is overshadowed by Dawkins’ recounting of events; he describes the genesis of their relationship occurring in “a very showbizzy type of party”.
She had read Darwin's Origin of Species when she was only 15. Not only that, but the entire Dawkins catalogue of the day; from “Selfish Gene,” to “The Extended Phenotype,” the latter being a rather technical book designed less for attractive females and more for professional scientists. Lalla: actor, artist, embroiderer/knitter. Reader of Dawkins. And soon-to-be wife of Dawkins.
Dawkins loves showing Lalla off. And as far the rest of the world getting a glimpse of her formidable acting talent without having those loutish chops of Tom Baker flapping around her, Dawkins would approve, but only in certain permitted circumstances. Besides, Lalla is very involved in Dawkins' writing; she does delightful wee illustrations for them.
Below is a picture that I have framed above the dining room table. Admittedly the atmosphere is often disconsolate when dining alone. But with the picture, a bottle of sauvignon blanc and Arvo Pärt's 'Te Duem' playing gently in the background, my evenings often feel as rich and pleasant as those past years gone.
In our world, it is claimed that she is best remembered as the second actress to play the Time Lady Romana (Romanadvoratrelundar) in the British television program ‘Doctor Who.’ But for the sceptics, the realists, and indeed, in the history of our species; it shall be proclaimed that she was the wife of Dawkins.
Writer Douglas Adams introduced Lalla to Dawkins at Adams’ 40th birthday party. Lalla and Dawkins married later that year in 1992. For better or worse, Adams’ fiction will be consigned to but a footnote in comparison to what history will recognise as his greatest achievement; that of leading her to Dawkins.
Lalla has testified to the Dawkins encounter almost as though it was part of a divine plan: “It terrifies me, the sort of touch- and-go of it - what if I hadn't gone to that party? Luck of that kind so hangs in the balance; it's such a minute thing. If my father hadn't said, 'Go on, go out', I really don't know what my life would be like now. I try not to think about it too much. It's too frightening.”
Her impish and definitively feminine curiosity is overshadowed by Dawkins’ recounting of events; he describes the genesis of their relationship occurring in “a very showbizzy type of party”.
She had read Darwin's Origin of Species when she was only 15. Not only that, but the entire Dawkins catalogue of the day; from “Selfish Gene,” to “The Extended Phenotype,” the latter being a rather technical book designed less for attractive females and more for professional scientists. Lalla: actor, artist, embroiderer/knitter. Reader of Dawkins. And soon-to-be wife of Dawkins.
Dawkins loves showing Lalla off. And as far the rest of the world getting a glimpse of her formidable acting talent without having those loutish chops of Tom Baker flapping around her, Dawkins would approve, but only in certain permitted circumstances. Besides, Lalla is very involved in Dawkins' writing; she does delightful wee illustrations for them.
Below is a picture that I have framed above the dining room table. Admittedly the atmosphere is often disconsolate when dining alone. But with the picture, a bottle of sauvignon blanc and Arvo Pärt's 'Te Duem' playing gently in the background, my evenings often feel as rich and pleasant as those past years gone.
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