I Am Writing A Sequel To The

I Escaped The Torture Of My Childhood Home By Reading. To This Day It Is Still One Of My Greatest Pleasures.

The Bird With The Thorn In Its Breast, It Follows An Immutable Law; It Is Driven By It Knows Not What To Impale Itself, And Die Singing. At The Very Instant The Thorn Enters There Is No Awareness In It Of The Dying To Come; It Simply Sings And Sings Until There Is Not The Life Left To Utter Another Note. But We, When We Put The Thorns In Our Breasts, We Know. We Understand. And Still We Do It. Still We Do It.

The Labour Party Of Today Has Fits Of Horrors Of The Very Thought Of Somebody Like Me Might Saying That They Bought In White Australia. But I Believe They Did.

Once I've Got The First Draft Down On Paper Then I Do Five Or Six More Drafts, The Last Two Of Which Will Be Polishing Drafts. The Ones In Between Will Flesh Out The Characters And Maybe I'll Check My Research.

When We Press The Thorn To Our Chest We Know, We Understand, And Still We Do It.