So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

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