ASK THE ANSWER MAN: JIMMY PAGE

Originally, I toyed with the idea of kicking off my contribution to "Dialogues with Jimmy Page" with a flashy intellectual quotation from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda about what a bruise it is to meet an idealized person and be confronted with their inevitable normalness.

This was supposed to suggest to you that I'm really quite intelligent, so that when you got to the meat and potatoes of the interview you wouldn't be so quick to notice how timidly I held up my end of things.