I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
From Thomas Keneally
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.
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