But I knew I didn't want to be at the bottom of the socialladder. I wanted to be educated. Teaching was my university, much more so than when I actually was incollege and tired all the time, working and going out with who knows whatnumber of women. I've read thousands and thousands of pages of adolescentwriting, maybe 50 percent of it drivel. Adolescents are full of self-pity.
Every incident is true.
Dialogue had to be created. But there was aritualistic quality to our conversation which makes it easier to remember. Besides, you take kids and ask them what cartoons they've watched ontelevision, and they can remember them down to the last detail. We didn'thave television. Our lives were our cartoons.