I think she knew she was planting a seed, germinating something inside me when she did that. It was my wife, Elsie, who bought me the first dictionary. Big thing, best thing she taught me was to learn to write the words too, taught me I wasn’t just a second-rate man raised on white flour and Christianity. To get water from the stones, you see?Īfter I met my beautiful wife, although beauty was the least of her, strong and fearless was the most of her – well she taught me lots of things. So in a country where we weren’t really allowed to be, I decided to be. It seemed the most sensible thing to do was to learn to read well. The one thing I thought I could control was my own head.
I only wanted to decide for myself how I’d live it, but that was a big ask in a country that had a plan for me, already mapped in my veins since before I was born. Before I believed everything they taught me I thought when all were dead that all were gone, and so as a young fella I tried to find my place in this short life.
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