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I’ve always been fascinated by time. Does anybody else send messages to themselves in the future? A pupil said to me, ” Factorising quadratics sir, of course I can do that, I’m not a retard!” That claim was recorded, stuck up on the wall above my board and a year later, after the mock exam was marked, guess what, apparently he couldn’t and he was, and to commemorate the fact, he received his own personal chit of certification to prove it.
I’ve never wanted to return to the flat that was our family home when I grew up. I had a happy childhood but differed from my friends by being quite a sentimental and nostalgic little boy. While my schoolmates listened to David Bowie and Pink Floyd, I could recite you the lyrics of any Frank Sinatra song or sing anything from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Nowadays, I stubbornly view looking backwards in time as negative and to be avoided at all costs. I think it’s fear of mortality that does it and like the white rabbit in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ seem to always be in a state of hurry, “Oh dear, Oh dear! I shall be too late” – The clock is ticking, I can’t think of another reason why at my age I’m still running down corridors!
A Monkey in Manhattan 