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Index
Cover
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
I – BOOK OF MATCHES
‘My party piece’
* ‘Strike two. My mind works’
* ‘I rate myself as a happy, contented person’
* ‘I like vivid, true-to-life love scenes’
* ‘I am able to keep my mind steadily’
* ‘Thunder and lightning hardly ever upset me’
* ‘People talk nonsense and I put them straight’
* ‘People never push me into doing things’
* ‘Mother, any distance greater than a single span’
* ‘My father thought it bloody queer’
* ‘I am very bothered when I think’
* ‘A safe rule in life is: trust nobody’
* ‘Mice and snakes don’t give me the shivers’
* ‘I live in fear of letting people down’
* ‘I’m dreaming of that work, Man Seated Reading’
* ‘Brung up with swine, I was’
* ‘Those bastards in their mansions’
* ‘There are those who manage their private affairs’
* ankylosing spondylitis
* ‘Let this matchstick be a brief biography’
* ‘I’ve made out a will; I’m leaving myself’
* ‘I thought I’d write my own obituary. Instead’
* ‘Life’
* ‘I have dreams like nightmares where I am deserted’
* ‘I think about the time’
* ‘I feel I am at the end of my tether’
* ‘No convictions – that’s my one major fault’
* ‘The story changes every time’
* ‘Thinking back, they either pulled me like a tooth’
* ‘Some unimportant word or phrase’
II – BECOMING OF AGE
Map Reference
The Lost Letter of the Late Jud Fry
To Poverty
Tale
Reverse Charge
You
Parable of the Dead Donkey
Hitcher
Act of Union
Cataract Operation
On the Trail of the Old Ways
Penelope
To His Lost Lover
Becoming of Age
III – READING THE BANNS
‘Above me, at the abbey’
‘At closer inspection’
‘Tread carefully’
‘This time the cat’
‘A dream, a nightmare’
‘This 1950 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith’
‘With her labrador, at night’
‘Around the cuffs and neck at least’
‘Nine morning suits’
‘At this stage in the day’
‘Your wedding day requires’
‘Let me put it this way’
About the Author
Copyright
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