and then i can sort of go wherever i need to go. and so for me, my interest in learning was lit by her saying, "you can'tjust do nothing." how did it inspire you? and what...? it inspired me to ask questions, to say, "i don't understand, "can you help me understand?" 0r, "what's the most interesting thing i need to know about this?" and, you know, in the �*60s, you could do stuff like that. things were free. public lectures? public lectures on all kinds of crazy stuff. so you were mixing with adults a lot during the daytime when, ordinarily, you would be at school. some. you were later known as a comic storyteller on stage. yes. were you drawing on some of those people that you met on the streets, on the people around you, in the community? just people i passed, you know? i would love to tell you it was as organised as you're... ..as you're talking about it, but it wasn't. i was lucky enough to have been