Since I am in Australia I have to talk, talk, talk and all I

see is not people but parties, parties, parties.

    – Fay Weldon on promotional tour
The real profits went to the

publishers not the authors who

got tired and lost their smiles

and voices and the attending starving poets

were eating pat's and drinking

expensive wines and

became patently aware that their future

lied not in heavenly dark verse

but in devilishly light prose