20,000 Days on Earth Page #2
Yes.
...was with, er...a girl,
um...that I...who had black hair
and a very white face.
- Mm-hm.
- She'd put on make-up,
and she put make-up on
over her lips as well
so it was all just this...sort of
almost this kabuki-like kind of thing,
and I was...I don't know,
15 or something like that.
I'd told my mother
and I slept with this girl.
- Hm.
- But we didn't have sex.
But there was something
about the shifting of her...
- She turned her back on me.
- Hm.
But I could see this face in...
in the sort of half-light,
this white face...
and, um...that had
quite a big effect on me, that.
and her friend Janine...
- Julie, her name was.
- Mm-hm.
They used to like to dress me up
in, er...in kind of...
in women's clothing.
- Hm.
- At the time I'd do anything, you know,
and...I remember sort of having to
sort of toddle out of the family home
in my high heels and hot pants when...
(THEY CHUCKLE)
Kind of, you know, "Off to..."
"Where are you going, darling?"
"Off to a fancy dress, Mum."
And kind of going out the door,
and...and eventually my father...I
remember my father, er...coming upstairs
and, obviously, my...my mother had...
- had told him about this...
- Mm.
- ...cos it was so out of character...
- Mm.
...and him sitting down,
like you're sitting there, and saying,
"Now, son, there's a time
when we all become men,"
and giving me this talk about, um...
(CHUCKLES) ...about, er...
wearing women's clothing,
cos they were... I think they were
worried that I was a transvestite.
Hm.
Um...but I was just sort of in...
really in the thrall of this...
strange, wonderful girl.
What are your earliest memories of him?
- Of my father?
- Mm.
(SIGHS) Oh, I don't know.
You know, there must be earlier ones,
but he...he did actually
take me aside one day
and read me the first chapter of Lolita.
Why that?
Because he said that within that chapter,
great writing kind of existed in there
- ...on so many different levels...
- Mm.
...and he kind of went
through the alliteration
and read it out loud and said,
"See what happens here?"
And...you know,
and that was very powerful...
- Mm.
- ...thing for him to do for me,
because the way that I saw him
become around that kind of stuff...
- Mm.
- ...that was, um...
...you know, different,
that he changed when he read that.
What did he become?
- You know, a...a greater thing.
- And do you ever remember...
Hey, this is great,
having the piano in, er...
- the control room.
- WARREN:
Yeah, yeah.HERVE:
We can, er...tuneevery piano if you need.
Yeah, and...and the one in the barn.
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