Late reception [play memory of a free festival]

This short text should be read in conjunction with, and as an introduction of sorts, to Nicholas Royle's own piece that opens this volume, 'The Early Reception of the Sun Machine', first delivered as a talk at the University of Glasgow in 2024. It discusses the circumstances of the talk, the ways in which the Sun Machine book has been read and misread and takes the form of a personal reflection on the whole question of circumstance and coincidence.