And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.