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

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

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

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.