Wishing from the age of eight to become a university lecturer and a great writer, I achieved the first aim at 23, and gave it up at 52, becoming a general supply teacher, then training as a drama teacher, and now being a general supply teacher again. I am a writer, actor and storyteller, in any order and in three languages (though the best French I write is that of Montaigme and Rabelais). StoryTELLING, as opposed to writing, is a recent departure (or perhaps homecoming), and one which I adore. Telling to writing is as knitting to lace-making. My only strictly published work (apart from articles I wrote for the university's indescribably bolshie staff-magazine, called "Viewpoint", and my conference-papers, which are actually entertaining to read - so much so that my peers accused me of producing belles-lettres rather than research) is in German, purporting to be a reminiscence by Freud delivered on the stage of the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead during the last year of his life, called My Most Successful Case. It appeared in an Austrian literary magazine, and I was paid for it. As for the rest - life is just raw material. Or performance. Moreover, I am Merlin...
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