Anyway, I remember getting LAING to take me down to where AMADEUS’ frequency control room was in TOTNES…above the PLAINS at the crossroads…to the right as you walk down the hill and just over the road…high up…above that row of shops and ‘natural health centre’…in fact it might have been part of the ‘natural health centre’ of different therapists, working in the building…you could rent out a room there…but I think not…his room was probably on a deserted floor…we went there at night, in the evening.

I got LAING to knock three times on the door (I knew that I wouldn’t be allowed in first)…

AMADEUS let us in - he sat me at the first desk - the NOTES as in ‘musical notes’ desk and told me that I knew about that one, it was ‘my desk’ and then he sat LAING at the much larger one which was supposed to be the main control desk (although COLETTE had told me that the real power lay in the desk that I was to sit in front of)…and this was controlled by a rather strange system…

LAING and AMADEUS began to talk…at first I thought it was CHALDEAN but in fact, the language was only peppered with Semitic words…it was LATINATE…and reminded me of ROMANSCHE (see Switzerland and the ancient Italian used which is supposed to be very close to what the Romans spoke)…secondly the desk was alphabetical…and the letters were in an odd order…I can remember the last letters as this:

Z T Y X

I remember thinking, yes why should you have a certain sound list A, B, C, etc until X, Y, Z….for every single language…that is more odd than a language which doesn’t follow that rule…