People - And I Include Myself -

Writing Is More Than Anything A Compulsion, Like Some People Wash Their Hands Thirty Times A Day For Fear Of Awful Consequences If They Do Not. It Pays A Whole Lot Better Than This Type Of Compulsion, But It Is No More Heroic.

To Believe That One, Or Even Three, Mates Can Supply All The Things One Needs From One's Friends Is As Stupid As Believing Married Couples Must Do Everything Together.

Prostitution Is The Supreme Triumph Of Capitalism. When The Sex War Is Won Prostitutes Should Be Shot As Collaborators For Their Terrible Betrayal Of All Women, For The Moral Tarring And Feathering They Give Indigenous Women Who Have Had The Bad Luck To Live In What They Make Their Humping Ground.

In Barcelona, Things Seem So Different. For Example, I Know That It's Traditionally The Least Spanish City, But You'd Never Know They Had A Monarchy, Coming Here As A Tourist - As Opposed To The Uk, Where The Queen Is Probably The Best-known Animal, Vegetable And/or Mineral Going When It Comes To Overseas Visitors.

One Christmas Build-up Tradition, However, Has Totally Bypassed Me - That Of Going Up To Town And Doing A Show.