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When I Was Very Young, One Of My Favourite Books Was Captain's Courageous And I Suppose One Of The Reasons I Loved It, It Was A Life I Knew I Should Have Had, Learning All The Different Bits Of The Ship And Learning To Catch Fish And Rig Sails And To -all The Things That I Never Learned And I Never Learned The Discipline, But I Hungered After It.

Dinner Was Meat - Not Hunks Of Meat, As In Australia, But Pathetic Scraps Of Meat, As In Britain - Which The Girls Upstairs Transformed Into Edible Dishes By Heating It In Secret Ways And Adding Bits Of Stuff To It.

In The Movies First Impressions Are Everything. Or, To Put It Less Drastically, In The Movies There Are No Later Impressions Without A First Impression, Because You Will Have Stopped Watching. Sometimes A Critic Persuades You To Give An Unpromising-looking Movie A Chance, But The Movie Had Better Convey The Impression Pretty Quickly That The Critic Might Be Right.

I Love Reading About The Sea. I Love Reading About It A Lot More Than Actually Being On The Sea, When You Think About It.

The Provincial Intellectual Is Doomed To Arguing At Low Level... There Is Still No Australian Literary World, Not In Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It Is Some Consolation To Realise That There Is No Literary World In Birmingham Or Los Angeles Either. I Have Heard There Is One In Montreal, But I Don't Believe It. The Literary World Is In London And New York, The Only Cities Big Enough To Sustain Magazines Which Can Afford To Reject Copy.