I Didn't Like The Idea Of Being

One Of The Great Privileges Of Having Grown Up In A Middle-class Literary English Household, But Having Gone To School In The Front Lines In Southeast London, Was That I Became Half-street-urchin And Half-good-boy At Home. I Knew That Dichotomy Was Possible.

Perhaps I'm Particularly Serious, Because I'm Not Unaware Of The Potential Absurdity Of What I'm Doing.

I Still Relate To My Father Very Much. I Mean, I Talk To Him In A Certain Way, As We Do Talk To The Dead.

I Find It Easier To Work When It's Quiet.

I Suppose The Place Where I Live Is Fairly Remote, It Would Seem Remote To Some People.