QUOTE : Some people seem to have a map of life: they know where they are going and they plot their route. I have just floated in a chartless sea, my journey governed by the winds and currents. I’ve reacted. First I fled from Motherdarling. I would not have been a student were it not for Gilles. I have spent all my life since then at the Sorbonne, until I had to leave. I married when my girl got pregnant; she gave birth and raised my son; if she had not left me I’d still be with them both. I wedded for the second time as the result of being wooed, not wooing. Life’s been done to me and now I don’t know where to go.