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July 29, 2012 | 56 notes

It’s the morning after the opening ceremony. For two years I’ve felt constipated with secrets, but last night was a pyrotechnic act of confession, and I feel elated. At last I don’t have to talk about “Betty” any more. Betty was the code name for Thomas Heatherwick’s beautiful, delicate Olympic cauldron. She was named after the executive producer’s dog. And so we were liable to get strange messages about “going to visit Betty” and “what to do if Betty malfunctions” and even “burning Betty”. For the last two years I’ve been going round bragging about being the writer on Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony. The usual response is: “Wow!” followed by: “Errrm, what do you mean?” Which is what I asked Danny when he first asked me. “I don’t really know,” he answered. The night we saw our mad, fantastical dreams come true by Frank Cottrell Boyce, writer of the Olympic opening ceremony (via guardianolympics)

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