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Each Culture Has Its Own Form Of Staged Combat, Evolved From Its Particular Method Of Street Fighting And Cleaned Up For Presentation As A Spectacle, E.g. Savate, Cornish Wrestling, Karate, Kung-fu.

Invent Nothing, Deny Nothing, Speak Up, Stand Up, Stay Out Of School.

Old Age And Treachery Will Always Beat Youth And Exuberance.

In My Family, In The Days Prior To Television, We Liked To While Away The Evenings By Making Ourselves Miserable, Solely Based On Our Ability To Speak The Language Viciously.

The Basis Of Drama Is... The Struggle Of The Hero Towards A Specific Goal At The End Of Which He Realises That What Kept Him From It Was, In The Lesser Drama, Civilisation And, In The Great Drama, The Discovery Of Something That He Did Not Set Out To Discover But Which Can Be Seen Retrospectively As Inevitable.