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I Love Reading About The Sea. I Love Reading About It A Lot More Than Actually Being On The Sea, When You Think About It.

People Should Be Stopped From Writing Poetry. There's Far Too Much Of It. And If They're Any Good, They'll Go Ahead Anyways.

I Was A Big Pothead For A Short Period. That Was What Ticked Me Off That I Shouldn't Go Near Hard Drugs, Actually, Because I Would Consume The Stuff As If It Was Going Out Of Style And It Rapidly Occurred To Me That If I Ever Tried A Hard Drug, The Same Thing Would Happen, So I Never Did.

Dinner Was Meat - Not Hunks Of Meat, As In Australia, But Pathetic Scraps Of Meat, As In Britain - Which The Girls Upstairs Transformed Into Edible Dishes By Heating It In Secret Ways And Adding Bits Of Stuff To It.

Perhaps I Should Have Pointed Out More Often That Without Her (mother's) Guidance And Example I Might Have Gone Straight From Short Pants To Long Bay Gaol, Which In Those Days Was Still In Use And Heavily Populated By Larcenous Young Men Who Had Chosen Their Parents Less Wisely.