There are two stories to this exhibition, then, or perhaps even three. The first is the legend of the Minotaur itself, which continues to fascinate and terrify even after all this time. The second is that of Sir Arthur Evans, bungling and brilliant, with his important if controversial excavation of Knossos and his interpretation of its secrets. The third is the one that perhaps I want to engage with least of all: Theseus in the labyrinth pursued by the beast, with all its metaphorical application to my own life as I stumble through my personal maze. Does the Minotaur presage the roaring lion of Compline, who “walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” – and if so, where is my saving piece of string secured, and to what, or to whom?

We don’t know who coined the phrase: “Whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” But Einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “Of what is significant in one’s own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is the guest on this week’s episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald. The pro-life counsellor was arrested and charged by police in December after she admitted to them that she “might be” praying silently in her head outside a closed abortion facility in Birmingham. The Crown Prosecution Services