As if deliberately plumbing the depths of self-indulgence, and seeking to alienate you good people, I thought I’d share the following early example of my writing, which I found yesterday when clearing out some boxes of stuff.
The dates on the back suggest it’s from when I was five or six years old, so please excuse the mangled conjugation of the verb ‘to eat’:
I think we can all see what young me was aiming at with that picture, but I think I owe an apology to the estates of both Bram Stoker and Bob Kane.
And, very probably, Freddie Mercury.
Piers
Well, Dracula from the book did have a moustache IIRC…
John Soanes
You're quite right – p18 of my copy says "The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel–looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth". Though I'd be hard-pressed to argue my younger self knew this… but ta!
J
一起吧
不要把生命看得太嚴肅，反正我們不會活著離開。..................................................