Life is a game!
I don't know if I fully agree with that statement, but I have a feeling that Quentin might have. If so it was a game which he played on his terms and by his rules, and in the playing of it he accepted no compromise.
If you think about his life, it seems to bear the greatest resemblance to a game of snakes and ladders. He threw the dice often (using his rules) and sometimes he landed on a ladder. He climbed up to a job, friends?, enough money to afford a nice room and to eat. Next throw of the dice would find him sliding down a snake to unemployment, living in a room so small he could not stand up in it, and fainting in the street from hunger.
Certainly in the first half of his life, there were many more snakes than there were ladders. This started to change after the televising of The Naked Civil Servant, when more ladders started to appear in his life. However it was not until he moved to America, when he was already over 70 that his life started to consist almost totally of ladders. How wonderful it was that he had almost 20 years of this success and happiness.
When it comes to telling his lifestory, I felt that there was no-one who can do it better than the man himself.
Everything here is quoted directly from his books 'The Naked Civil Servant', 'How To Become A Virgin' and 'Resident Alien'
So lets start the game of life.
If you think about his life, it seems to bear the greatest resemblance to a game of snakes and ladders. He threw the dice often (using his rules) and sometimes he landed on a ladder. He climbed up to a job, friends?, enough money to afford a nice room and to eat. Next throw of the dice would find him sliding down a snake to unemployment, living in a room so small he could not stand up in it, and fainting in the street from hunger.
Certainly in the first half of his life, there were many more snakes than there were ladders. This started to change after the televising of The Naked Civil Servant, when more ladders started to appear in his life. However it was not until he moved to America, when he was already over 70 that his life started to consist almost totally of ladders. How wonderful it was that he had almost 20 years of this success and happiness.
When it comes to telling his lifestory, I felt that there was no-one who can do it better than the man himself.
Everything here is quoted directly from his books 'The Naked Civil Servant', 'How To Become A Virgin' and 'Resident Alien'
So lets start the game of life.