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The winter sun was going down on Surfers Paradise.

It was my 98th day on the wagon.

It didn't feel any better than my 97

I miss my hipflask Johnnie Walker, my ex wife Jean,

my pet dog Somare and my exorbitant salaries.

Deputy Commissioner of Police. I wasn't sure any more

I was cut out to be a writer of controversial expositors of police corruption.

At the moment, I couldn't lift the lid of a can of baked beans.

I wanted to be 12 years old again the best spin bowler in Southport high.

I wanted a lot of things Mr. Stacy sorted my landlady, including the rent.

Don't tell me you've had your hair permed there's been a bloke ringing STD all day.

He left this message for you

Oh, yes, it's from a friend of mine.

My publisher Samira has been eating in my house and home

looking after your dog

oh, we're a desperate breed of man.

Got more bills going for you? And two final notice is

I put them under your door

Thank you

Why don't we have an affair

while I'm still

not while your rooms in that condition.

That's the sticking point

we have to do it the right way

I made my way into the familiar squalor wondering how I

Michael Stacy OB of army and police intelligence

one time friend of cabinet ministers and brothel keepers and

gambling millionaires had come down so far in the world

so fast wants to do in part

I knew was being framed at the Royal Commission but maybe it went deeper than that.

Maybe I had a suicidal streak

wondered got worse when so I was thankful at least for the weekly postcard

from my old maid quiet in Malaya which was the latest move and

are absorbing game of chess

the game now in its seventh month

was beginning to look interesting.

Then I wrote some more of my forthcoming best seller

that expose them all of the fastest wished I was writing it better.

And then real life in truth

I was getting to like it less and less

Michael Stacy OB knew us on his 1976

Oh my god jock the box off

you gotta be joking. Oh, I've done 980 closely typed pages

beautiful gripping stuff

but too late but that's not the reason

you know bloody well that's not the reason

I haven't touched a drop in six months.

All right, three months.

Give me another week or four days.

Now keep the dog it's a gift

What was that noise

straight to the chase

Australia appeals

come along ladies jump jump.

These young and solo

Only if you play your cards right it could be your lucky night.

The wildcard, a lot of good luck.

My friend wants to know if they were genuine a Midnight

Cowboy makes you go away.

That's where I fell in love.

The stones about came down

to play as I want to stray,

save your brains.

Plenty more hangovers where this one came from.

I've seen you before as days,

you put on a suicidal front, but it got me still an Irish Catholic

and you don't believe in it.

By just getting into training purgatory could be a valuable experience for us

growing to play some

hundreds of years before tonight

by coincidence that didn't surprise either her or me.

I've been almost engaged to Kate back when the world was young.

She was again lads to hold marriages later

because in mind moving slowly closer to the center of my life.

I knew she was there

but I drew back from going to it and putting my head in a bosom

and cried like a baby.

We all soldiers have some pride.

The Irish mistress wasn't helping my appreciation of the music or the decor

and we sounded like cheese graters fornicating and

an iron tank suddenly beginning to look hostile

Hi stirs as she saw it

as she whispered in money

that we will potting as money

for tomorrow

never came

up the ball

bloody awful you should see me on my bad days

it was gonna leave us for some other time I made his union business trades

while I'm in the book of Ted Godfrey

Godfrey he's not trade at all

anymore busy

stay south of the border

mind body weights

for sugar sweet

here

love stories

I will be a black bird

want to do two ways in my game

I was made like men

like

we had a close encounter with the Samoan rugby team

off of the teach the native dancer desperate men

I lost another for the Salvation Army

trombonist

since of sin

is like the regular army.

It would be

fun in terms of it.

You know what?

I mean? $20 and I buy a drink.

I refuse

Oh my god

talk

topic Colorado

working for the Pentagon top secret

army intelligence

let me 20

If I make a decision when you asked me

to help you

I wish I really

really wish that every child is good straight and honest with you.

We are an ancient and proud people

you want to go one thing at a time

ever seen you somewhere before?

Yeah maybe I thought well

you live several of you

wake up tonight Patricia the armies of Tom

Why don't you go out and try it out I have

getting out of deeply

me

silly season

lots of Japanese too many Japanese

I know you

work for Senator McCready.

You saw him last night. Remember?

Yeah, remember?

He wants to see you.

Does he now

add a mouth like an A a tilt his armpit and a pressing need for a drink.

I could have argued with frankly insecurities.

We went up river from the Isle of Capri

pass bungalow after bungalow of rich men,

waiting for the eternal boatman on their salons avoided the real dirt and

right at Sorento and went on past the portals of Orion in the Shangri La estate.

Let's MacCready it come up in the world from when I knew him

first class below me and said Ford Hi,

what do you feel like a stud Mallard legs slip?

Storm and and packer law graduate

local Alderman Queens cancel federal senator,

cabinet minister in an attempt to be premier of the emerging seven states.

It'd be nice to say hadn't changed a bit

but he had a lot of it was the Labour Party caucus

he couldn't blame for that. And part of it was his new wife

social climbing airhostess was designs on Buckingham Palace.

I wondered if the unflappable Keith stood by her bed in the middle of the life

the way he did mine and asked if anything further was needed.

She looked 10 Years Younger since a hysterectomy.

And mean is a beach full of blue bottles.

And body Mike is the day so young.

Lovely to see you. How long has it been?

Oh the wedding breakfast I think when I sang the good ship Venus

in the matter of Perry Como 48 verses with local references.

Yes, I remember

Yesterday inside on the phone, Washington I think

your old stomping ground International said

some of his makeup some wisdom.

Some of us know when to stop.

Not you darling. This way Mr.

Deputy Commissioner, thank you

I can't say it's been a pleasure.

I'll call you back sometime in the next administration.

Mike, where is he?

I look I'm sorry about last night trades all the Labor Party.

My pre selection welcome so log Mack got me on the hook.

As a difference as you may have heard between number two on the Senate ticket number three.

Yes. They can dredge up one more thing against me, Mike.

I'm gonna millon one more.

This is delicate because I want you to find my daughter.

She came back three months ago knocked off drives down $50,000 Worth

and I don't know where she is.

It's all to do with my my marrying Joan and divorcing Alma and Alma Die.

Die in the way she did.

She's got it in for me, man, the modern society and all your good reasons.

Now they do it Mike $5,000 to find it and bring it back as a favor from an old friend to an old friend.

I'm writing a book. Oh, no, you're not.

I know the books off. Really?

I leave it that way. I'll made really?

Why less? Because you're sticking your neck out too bloody far.

And you know it. Stace.

I trust you.

wants you to find Caffee Well,

I suppose I'm still a godfather.

You are. We got drunk together.

Remember the christening?

$4,000 Plus expenses

it's the only photograph you got.

Yeah. She took the family album last time she came back.

Didn't want a father to have it as he let down the side.

Air of the dog. What do you think?

I think she hates Mrs. McGrady so much

you'll make a big scene.

Something really melodramatic.

She thinks that she doesn't believe in

very few

Gian with anybody?

Yeah, I'd say so.

Guess what?

I informed guess.

Babysitting isn't what it was.

It all felt pretty simple at the stock to find an old friend's daughter for $4,000 Plus expenses.

It wasn't exactly a new lease of life.

Now the book was but it would keep me going until opening.

The first place I call that in search of the missing Drysdale

was the usual kind of Gold Coast art gallery with a difference that was run by a man Lee shady

character I knew famed for his fashionable forgeries and development deals.

Please, Commissioner last looking blonde young girl come in here

with the cords dries down which obviously you didn't buy.

And it was stolen.

What are you talking about?

Something that the Dealers Association might find loose, chunky.

You know, it's not the first time and what do you want?

Oh, Former deputy commissioner.

Cut the girl

I want to drive down.

It's no forgery.

He's astigmatic you know, world looks just like that to him.

How did she convince you that it was hers to sell?

Have a letter from her father, the minister when she could have forged their signature?

Maybe? But then I thought lares wouldn't prosecute his own daughter anyway.

Bargain. Steal you might say she had me make up the check in that name.

Next slide.

Two quick phone calls led me to an address I was familiar with.

Full of animals I really liked and people I could take all the blame

The trainee lovely name, she in trouble

know about this just anxious to find out that's all.

Well, we met at this a frank Wild Party over the border.

She was really amazing.

We really exploded.

And you said what are you doing after the audit?

Past the visor? What?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we lived together for about 10 days.

It was my best 10 days, four times a night.

What? Four times a night.

She was really warm, loving breakfast in bed.

All the grass I could smoke.

I mean, Peruvian gold. And what did you do with the money?

What do you mean by the baby? Love?

I got nothing to hide.

All I did was bank the check for her the next day

drew out a hole $12,000 with a rubber band around it.

And I gave it really was a bargain.

That afternoon. She bought me a Ducati 860 GT,

motorbike that Sonya lovely girl.

The whole silicon, not the same.

And we had this mad weekend riding all over the coast.

Then we're in this motel and Murwillumbah

I want I woke up the next morning.

She was gone and never saw her again

know what sort of week later she was talking to the bouncer at the ball.

Selena I went up there and I said, Hey, what happened to you?

And she said, Go away. I don't want to think about any of that.

And I said, Well, I really want to thank you for the motorbike.

And Igor that was the bouncer threw me down the stairs.

How'd you know his name was Ian

he's a close personal friend of mine

Hello Nice face.

I prefer Phaedo

boats shot myself

what's the bottom line?

hatchling McCready?

I'm a police

he's a little wild

eyes rocks

no now she's just she's an initiative

the temple expanded awareness

How long was she

four days unlocked but then I thought

a nun or a whole

I mean I'm a pragmatic realist.

I'm in real estate I've got no time for Christmas.

Yeah I believe in a book that

I personally know fast.

What am I under arrest?

The temples on shore drive and abroad

board position

did you read a piece of fruit

please make your selection.

Oh this will be 50 cents

please.

All our fruit is 50 cents should have chosen finally

we have no pineapples made yes we have

no fine

don't worry about

my name is Crystal mountain.

Please follow.

All the way

to know is to share.

Five blind men were shown an elephant in a darkened room and

the five blind men were asked to describe it

one feeling is Trump said

an elephant is like a snake one

No one says an elephant is like a tree.

One feeling its tusks said an elephant is like a firm banana.

All right.

But all well hold on the wrong

to know is to share.

To see things and we are like blind

who do not to see things

whole is to see your whole world the way we see in part and amongst us.

Oh I'm so good.

Face to face great ye shall know perfectly.

So I am perfectly

to know is to shake

to see things

thank you see and understand,

to know is to share

I have to ask why you won't take your shoes.

They're good shoes. And I also have to ask you are you still affiliated

with a branch office of any police balls, or other similar investigative body?

And I have to warn you that this is Queensland,

not California and I can tell as many lives as I like, what about basic human rights?

Well there in Moscow's you say to human life evolves, whatever you want.

Kathy Mcrainey the Senator's daughter came here

spatch McGrady? Yeah, that's right.

What happened to her?

She was being pursued by a brutal young man

interested in making a real estate killing with her money.

She sought sanctuary in order,

she may not have been sincere.

Why weren't you able to relieve her of the burden of her excessive wealth?

Don't provoke us, Mr. Stacy.

As part of our physical discipline, we all in Kendall,

what happened to our policy is after a month to send our communications back into the world,

what is laughingly called the real world to test that concept of ultimate reality.

Before returning for ordination.

She didn't return one of our initiates or a photograph in a guide to an escort agency.

He tried to make contact but in vain

she was rather a disappointment to us.

We'd like to keep it in the family

sorry I have this battle the streak.

Yes you do.

It was places like this that were giving God and Buddha a bad name.

I tried to see Kathy McCready a respectable upper class labor senator's daughter

in such a setting found it all too easy.

She and her generation were trying Little Bean shoots and ashrams hard drugs

and primal screaming the road to Kathmandu.

And two weeks is a horror and another time

they were all getting back at the parents who had given them the word

they wanted revenge

revenge was in the air in Surfers Paradise that morning

my oh my curly wanted some of it to

get getting desperate I don't really know

he's a nice girls.

I think we got some of them performing at the new status convention job

and out of cakes that sort of thing.

On introduction

on the wagon taking up religion have a banana split.

I got the makings know

I'm on a job

to remember your Jolson imitation

not near as a popular finger at the policeman

for you were you really weren't

my mouth as the writing game

should see I've got these pressing deadlines.

Like we're all friends. No evidence of an inquiry.

I'd be very disappointed if there was anything in that book

that might make my son think any less than me

that you're alone now a lot of the Blake's in the special section feel the same way?

The premonition of disappointment don't bullshit like what's in it?

Why is your buyer and your wife to explain a bit worse?

I heard the publisher didn't want it.

Other publishers you know, New York.

Alright, you've been warned.

Enjoy your ice cream might cram in all the pleasure your can

my lawyers got a list.

Benedict happens to be the people most likely to make it happen.

And your name is on that list.

But I might move it up.

Because I can quote the banana at you all sudden.

So be careful.

You used to be a pretty smart

PT you went on the piece and got all those grand ideas.

You're not as smart as you used to be.

I'm disappointed in you too.

Where's the trouble Stacy?

Looking for an 18 year old girl who isn't?

She's working as a hooker who isn't?

She's the daughter of a word old friend of mine was crazy.

What are you up to Stacey?

Just in between jobs

in between chapters in my life

you need a loan

and drink

wrong side of the bed to get out in the morning.

Not just yet. Just got a few granny knots to tie up in my life.

I don't know that I like you once you Stacy.

And I'm sure I don't approve of you.

But I'm here

why don't you prove to me

Well, I don't approve of the army or the police and

I dislike closet socialists and you're all three

well I didn't say I was perfect

yeah well back not lately.

Think her trade name was Brandy Alexander.

Brandy Alexander. That's good.

Yeah. And she did a centerfold for Playboy

I think she was going to an old friend of mine

is a contributing editor

really dizzy like you and Cottontail

likes me and lots of costumes and I think

I saw his stripping at the hiring

that's all my mistakes

well I'll see you in the morning

sent are on the right side of the bed

maybe

tell him please to put on some speed

Brandy Alexander she was a senator's daughter wasn't she to 41

I got a heavy load on me didn't a couple of welbilt Gentlemen waiting in the dark

when I came home one night burn the negative Canvas for smaller ones and

live to draw the old age pension in Salonika.

Where most negatives look alike don't they?

And most birth negatives of naked girls look even more like

you know you got a certain native cutting which is surprising for gentlemen.

Thank you Constantino

Michael, lay the heavier

Would you believe the whole Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce speaking in chorus now this week,

then don't ask you want prints not negatives?

Yeah, I guess so. Do you enjoy taking these

not that one.

Very strange ashtray.

Glossy detached the above a door slamming somehow.

You know, most of these girls don't enjoy it.

fools don't know what they're missing out on.

It's way down on the list of priorities

below cooking listening to music drinking Bourassa talking with their mothers.

Amazing.

Yeah, sweet Rosie are grading

you've come a long, long way.

But when do I get the prints

tomorrow morning?

Any particular angle you prefer? Oh no, it

really is just something that looks nice on the ceiling of the church.

This is 20th century economics.

I'm practicing I'm marketing a product

you're late. I believe you get in and take your clothes off.

And one of the products and marketing might be at the new status convention tomorrow night okay.

All right.

What's this diet?

canapes?

What's your name? I'm gonna write it down.

Next Deputy Commissioner

Florida.

Don't drink too much commission.

Yeah, I sometimes have these interruptions to my concentration. lose a few minutes.

Yeah. Well, you looked a bit green about the girls.

And you're moaning.

So could be something to do with the demon drinking.

We'll take care. Yeah.

Yeah.

Just part of the multiple power generation unit

that we should be able to supply with electricity and LPG gas,

a population of up to half a million and still have enough leftover to sell to New South Wales.

There'll be a dream. So we're gonna get your crude oil from 50 miles offshore, out on the roof.

It is one of the largest deposits in the world.

It is a well known rule where they are gonna let you drill it

you don't have to when the new state comes through tomato sauce

via WhatsApp,

a map map of the Gold Coast data on your country

was not wanting

but mad mornings over the border. Yes. Out of bounds.

Now this is the model of the proposed Valhalla estates

with the gambling casino the convention center the shoppings and cinema

calm that

I wouldn't be surprised

wrecked by monorail to go cash to this day.

Well, we have the layout convert to the cars Mike. Welcome aboard.

I just came here for the food.

lose more likely.

I beg your pardon.

Don't make a full use of singing

advanced Australia Pharaoh.

And this is the RDU the rhubarb development used will this be nationalized? Well?

Excuse me Is your name Brandy Alexander

shouldn't be in later on station.

Oh well can I see backstage I'm parked out

front of family

by the way

is.

Attention please.

Thank you.

I'm very pleased to present to Brigid

roll up he has a nice, I'm sorry about the security precautions.

I'm sure you understand.

And now ladies and gentlemen, I have great pride and pleasure in introducing our local state member

and the most acute and independent of mind and anytime, anywhere in the world.

Ladies and gentlemen Godfrey.

Here in this most prosperous region of Australia, we pay more taxes for less in return

than anywhere else in the so called Commonwealth to subsidize the diggers.

Lido blood Genesis black town, the sheep farmers of the Western District,

and the tea sipping time wasting blood sucking bureaucrats everywhere.

They are expected in return for the extra money we give to the south

and the west and the north, and the United Nations analysts

serving millions to make

do with less to be thankful to them

for what we have built ourselves out of swamp,

and sand and rain forest with the sweat of Abra

and the work and savings and experience

of a lifetime independence

and independence for the Gold Coast from Queensland,

and if need be from Australia, would be only an act of simple common sense

to reduce our taxes and increase our incomes and

Rich Lyons was an industry and commerce and glorify our region.

This blessing spot this golden curse this

paradise Right we going

wherever you like

I think we should talk

your place can't take why because of your wife

landlady you got this understanding

Kathy don't call me Kathy

because it's not a nice go

yeah no not enough of a milkshake

stop here

why Marilyn Monroe

she was really in love with Bobby Kennedy.

And then one night so she killed us.

She needed to be loved so much there's lots of ways of killing yourself.

What flavored milkshake I'd like to make love take me somewhere

and we'll make no

I'm an old fashioned girl. You know?

You got everything you need.

All right will you be having breakfast?

I love breakfast.

Well, you have to come down and get us to let the room service.

All right. Thank you.

Don't I know you from somewhere?

Yeah, no, no, you from an old son. Go. I'll take you home again.

My name isn't Kathy.

Oh, friend.

Whatever you prefer.

You just keep drinking more.

Just do as I say.

Guess what my real name is Noah.

Do you like dolphins? Yes. I like dolphins.

They're not fish. You know, they're mammals like us.

They breathe the same way.

The sky once and he told me that he works with dolphins.

One day we were out fishing and recorded baby dolphin.

And he said when they get scared.

They just stopped breathing until you put them back in the water.

And I didn't believe him.

So he left in there in the bottom of the boat.

And he did stop breathing.

thought he'd start again.

I waited but he just lay there completely still.

And at last I scream put him back

put him back

he was dead

loves me to sleep.

I'm not wearing any underwear.

I never do.

Marilyn Monroe.

I think we both should sleep tomorrow.

I can't sleep.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning.

Don't have the strength to face today anymore.

Hi my name is Brandy

it's Sherry

Tell me your story

The sun was shining I was shining with all that's fine

he did his very best to make the business clean and

that was very strange because you see it was the middle of the night

walrus and the carpenter came down you been on the

fifth since June 27

with like money drains

see such quantities

let us coach

like a good Christian boy

that's right your honor.

I never touched her all night

you must be demented

bye bye

20 years is yeah, why?

Cleaning

Jesus don't call up late.

Let's be crazy still daughter

approximate time of death between 115 and 2:15am overdose.

Self administered I presumed the landlady said she heard screaming

I was 315 It was a man screaming

Do you remember anything about that?

Lately I've been getting these blackouts

I do something about that if I were you

Here's my card. I didn't think she had anything with it.

Go home Mr. Stacy.

No, no no you've been here.

Why? Why not? Well, do you want them to know

but I got to see layers. Last McCready

That's all taken care of.

Go home.

I've just done a lot of talking Mike to get you out of a lot of trouble now

but if I know I did it

but Jesus got into you, right so I've never off the case.

Keep the money by buying Kathy some other way

Cathy's dead

it wasn't her I saw the body

Jesus Pull yourself together my luggage.

I don't want that money I

think you need it now

Mr sizing Stacy,

I want you to explain to me the condition of this room.

I want to know what's going on.

Hi, nice to see you Mrs. Gordon.

Is 25 weeks rent in advance

that I regret to announce this means our affair is off

Mrs. Gordon was right the room was on toddy unsuitable lodgings for an OBE

there was a lot of dirty water on my chest

that they had to get off before I felt myself again.

I passed by to hold pubs and didn't go in

I began to feel virtuous was a new experience.

I was determined to find Kathy McCready for my own satisfaction

whatever lays it said what did he mean any of his after case?

I went up the long stairs to get con Candice has photos.

The photos of the real Kathy MacCready the one who was still alive, or was she

I didn't exactly feel like a million dollars.

I hoped I wouldn't disgrace myself by drinking is developing fluid.

You're given the number of the truck.

What truck? The one that hit you.

That is a very old joke. I'm an immigrant.

I'm still catching up. What is it?

Is it the police is my pusher.

Good man. Go back a bit.

All right, then. Read a great idea.

Never looked that good on me. This is true.

It's very true. I can replace $120

This is true.

Plus the $5.50 for the coitus interruptus,

maybe not even 10

cracker. She's lovely. This one used to know as a little girl, you know.

And Shirley Temple ringlets.

She's a natural blonde.

Hang on. What's this?

Double brandy? She came back.

Double brandy.

Yes, right. She came back with the other one. We did some sister shots.

What do you mean double brandy? Well, that's what they called it.

Couldn't tell them apart. They work the same shift

on different knives under the same name.

Brandy Alexander.

And some nights they would double Brandy

$500 A night

Are you sure you're an Inspector of Police inspector?

Sure as I had acne when I was 12 where she?

Well, she did work in place.

Yeah, no. Brandy Alexander. Oh, well,

we specialize in combinations gin and tonic. Scotch and dry.

Double brandy. Double brand is on the rocks.

The other girls did. You mean she's dead?

Overdose was covering McCready. She's dead.

What? Sherry's gone oh my god.

What's the point of it all?

Oh, she went away with a client big wheel.

Sherry

who was oh some government minister.

I think Bill Todd minister for something around vision Colorado.

Now he came back he went all religious.

He's up in the mountains with some kids. someplace new place.

New Eden. Yeah. Nick and Angra.

Sherry wasn't a real name.

You want to get to state for that i

i drove on one hand at a noises towards Mount tambourine.

gliding smoothly along in my bright pink Mixmaster past Hector.

I'm Hector green and happy retirement of dentists and abortionist,

Coke pushers and property developers.

In what the guidebooks tell us is the largest rhubarb breeding region in the country,

a country politically famous for its rhubarb country I used to be proud of.

Nothing much had happened up here.

Lamington plateaus since a passenger plane with dad in 1937.

And a survivor walking back for help for over a scenic waterfall and

broke his neck and the army judging the scenery

good enough to blow up and who didn't build Canada.

Bill Todd and I was there in 1948.

boning up with a third world war that never came

before was changed into something less into hijackings and kidnappings,

letterbox and I know good guys anymore.

We were the good guys in Malaya

Bill Todd and I a war we won by keeping the newsreel cameraman out of the burning villages

at gunpoint and exterminating everyone very quietly

like British gentleman

Excuse me, where can I find time?

He's over there. Can I go over?

She'll go placidly.

structure in the universe unique, absolutely unique.

And no other structure No man made structure,

church, Army parliamentary democracy.

Multinational consortium dragging League of Nations can ever change or order what is the new?

I'm not that good of words.

Machine guns on good atomic reactors germ warfare and

all that satanic machinery of repression I've put behind me.

But until you can cast off everything that seeks to mold and abort all that is in you.

Can you ever hope to find that reasonable set of breakable rules to live?

So cast it off? Everything.

Remember, no one is like you.

It's to the unknown self be true.

And it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man.

I know Shakespeare but that's half of what I mean.

That's really good. We've never heard that.

Or as Blake put it in another way

was a young man from Belgrade, who kept it at home or in his case,

he said I'll admit I'm a bit of a ship for picking the money I'll say,

Michael Francis Xavier, Stacy OBE,

Andy, God bless the British out Indeed

this is Michael Stacy. You know free.

Oh friends with the necessary heretics.

Keep a good man humble.

We were in the army together the fighting fifth.

That's right. Let's call him the old hot toddy.

Hot, strong, reliable. put you to sleep in 30 seconds.

I went with Tati around his little green Kingdom paid for he told me about the wages of wickedness in Colorado,

and a certain proportion of his family estate.

It looked like it had been glued together out of old comic strips of Snugglepot and

cuddled pie or Blinky Bill the lovable koala

thought it was a bit like Blinky Bill quickly able at any time

to form a sincere and lasting and cuddled some relationship with the highest bidder.

But what was his relationship with Kathy McCready?

Apart from the obvious one, what was he really up to?

It wasn't religion, I knew that.

We're trying to live as far as possible with natural foodstuffs.

And what we know about vitamins are a good idea to live as far as possible

without drugs and preservatives, without insecticides and without electric lights.

What are you got to go to electric light? We think the night should come down the way it does in Asia.

The deep night. This is an experiment with rhubarb.

We're trying to find a substitute for oil.

Hopefully there'll be a an inflammable derivative to Lynn

we're trying to live as far as possible without oil.

What are you got against oil

it's caused the world far too much trouble than it's worth

too many wars too much pollution the air as well as the water.

Simple as that. Now it's not stays where in search of a reasonable future for the world.

The world that survives

survives one. The Holocaust.

He scared me.

This was the boy annual right but it wasn't the man.

All his maturity had gone missing.

What have they done to get him back there in Colorado?

You may hear from corny

write letters for a few years but he kept on talking

about how it was our duty to change the face of Southeast Asia.

It's hard to answer letters like that.

I played chess with him by postcard

VT once must have had malaria.

Life's too short for chess or politics or the army or any of that bloody hell

stay square get now it's time we sorted out what's important.

Still playing Brutus.

Like you did in Southport high been playing

and all your life

what are you here for Spacey?

What are you inquest?

Lows McCready, his daughter Catherine.

Also known as Brandy Alexander.

Oh, is that all? That's easy.

They'll take you to a blue sky

Why do you think I was here for money

probably knowing you evolved

I've heard you down on your luck era

got hey this is Mike Stacy

you know friend

Hello. Have an apple

woman tempted me

that sounds entirely possible

NYCHA see the deep Asian night

should fall when it does remember

what quite he used to say when we were

in army intelligence in a nice low Asian knights

s agree with a repository of the most dangerous

knowledge technical biochemical political at the world.

A Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil take eat and conquer.

And seem so long again.

It is in Colorado

I saw more than a fluid rubbed on the palm of the hand

would six months later cause internal bleeding,

prolonged injections that gives you cancer.

It is the tree of knowledge we know too much.

That's why I started this place in search of the necessary minimums Earth air fire and water.

I saw the sunrise in the Grand Canyon and I thought this level of simplicity must provide.

We need a new tree of knowledge

a New Eden

Excuse me

What do you think of all this?

I agree with Bill

about what in particular

we are born with one family

but our true family might be elsewhere

there's a long set yes you're gonna stay

as long as I want used to visit my father when I was a little girl

I remember you

I was happy

some people can't choose your families anymore

like your father

will it come back with me

saying he loves you

the sorry

will you be paid money if I do

a favor to a friend was that Canungra

yeah mortified by the sound of it

I don't want what do you think guys

got for a day or two all right. Do give him my love.

Yeah, I will steal the place

Oh, I got up Why did you join

where did the money

you brought me Golliwog when I was eight and I stayed in Israel.

Tel Aviv

just confiscating

we thought it might be gone and

cut it open to get all the stuffing

Oh golly. That was the last time I ever cried

feel sorry for

why you put on the uniform.

You did what you were told for all the one life you had on Earth.

Many types of uniforms. uniforms of the mind

you just don't understand do

a bog Irish ignorant I guess.

Have you ever felt that your childhood happened to somebody else?

Well I worked in two jobs at the age of 14 to keep my two brothers

and my four sisters and my mom

if there was a childhood back there somewhere it certainly didn't happen

so anything you want to ask me

anything at all

good night Uncle Mike.

Thank you for coming

Can I turn everywhere

I drove off into the dark through the smell of friendship panties and swamp water

and felt righteous and in need of a drink.

I discharged my god fatherly duty and wondered what was left to do in life.

Maybe Kathy was right.

Maybe some of us do miss out on the Garden of Eden and in despair or

grief wear school uniforms and other uniforms into our graves.

Some of us are born in paradise and think it's overrated.

I just got off the army.

Times change

I thought about the good night I had narrowly missed in Nevada

police, the army and Kathy's life of mine and

wondered if any time was left in my life to find a family of my own.

I thought of going into early mass and then asked

Who was I kidding?

And drove my alcoholic withdrawal symptoms home

and found that I was expected

Hey yo mutt

come from

you

It turned out the jacket not only rejected my book

but also sent back my big useless dog.

But it was good again to walk down a beach alongside my best friend and

contemplate my declining years on a policeman's passion however hard he was coming

I knew I was 54 and a half with the liver twice the age

most of the bad news yet to come

all right yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah

okay tool for trouble mister

it is difficult to the man said to be entirely possible until one is quite dead.

Now, less was dead, the entire Labor Party and all his enemies in the army bureaucracy

wanted to be his closest friend.

Death brings out the best and sweetest and

those who survived sometimes for minutes

on end.

Greetings, Michael Guillemette.

Good speech, Ted.

At least I could do. It was a good man.

Really nervous could have been a great excuse me.

Could I ask you a question about his chest

plus half as a general manager of mascus picnic

with the senator having a history of heart trouble, doctor? No, but it happens.

Was there any additional pressure in the last few months?

Look, this is not the time nor the place.

This thing thing of course is that you might be appointed certain

I might be

you'll have to ask the premier once you're hired, it could be his wife.

Really? Good luck to that time

she started earning money in the daytime.

Mrs. McCreary. Could you comment on the possibility that you might be appointed to fill the Senate vacancy or shop?

So a little respect? Mr. McQuaid.

He has no condition at all. It'll be a press conference on Friday.

I'll answer all your questions.

Except the lady.

Dice Kelly, I think I should tell you

you got bad breath

right.

I couldn't go in.

I've been out here remembering.

I think you should have come in.

What's the point?

This doesn't matter. It's just changing our form.

Our bodies just what we live in.

Did anything happen when he went in to see him?

No.

I felt I should have come in with you.

Yes, we had a talk.

He was a human being.

He was frightened for me.

He loves me. He really did.

They killed him. What?

They killed him.

I think we should have a talk.

My cost down

your male Mr. Stacey.

Thank you. Why is this one?

I turned to her in desperation when you rejected pull the other one.

It's got bells on it.

Do you play chess with NAMI friends?

Tell me Can I trust you?

I bought you logged in.

I have grown up a lot since then.

At first I was doing things to make him angry.

I got expelled from school for having two boys and

two. I chose enterprise.

I'd spend all night a disguise in the sand hills.

And he called the police. Yeah,

I tried some drugs. I didn't that drugs.

Tell me what happened.

I met this nice guy at a party over the border.

I liked him. I liked him in bed.

And I stole one of Dad's paintings and

we lived on the money in his flat. He's dead now.

Yes, yes, I know. I was there.

No friend of mine shut him up.

Oh friend, I used to do duets with a policeman's balls.

While we're making love you tell me things to make it more exciting.

Things I didn't believe

what sort of things an army cool. What

an army coup, a takeover with Army troops and tanks.

He said he was a secret agent.

And then I went to other people and worked on ego was the first and

then there are others, including a couple of generals.

And it was true that he was going to be part of it.

Why did they kill him? Because he got scared.

That's why I hired you to find me so that

when he told them he was pulling out they wouldn't have me to threaten him with

he's gonna fly me out of the country.

Why didn't he died the same night?

I like it. I like it.

It makes a good high school composition.

Do you ever look back to school?

Are you looking at how did they give you father?

Something that rubbed on his arm or whatever it can be done

why would I want to take over the Gold Coast?

pay less taxes

that too but mainly because of the oil

it's the biggest deposit this side of the Persian Gulf

Oil is very important now

it's worth getting a few rich older Australians for

maybe I believe if I had a drink

I need a drink

Let's make love

know why not?

I am your godfather lapse

Godfather donate

Why did you dad want to pull out

he didn't want the beaches getting dirty

the lovely beaches

oh no I made them on Kirlian a smart young assistant really?

Whatever they got the room but they're gonna kill us or

they're going to kill me

wonder why they haven't done so already.

When I give you a lender with the bad press

with the back half an hour policy that I don't turn up.

Don't call the police you might get curly.

Brush opposite. Why did you join buttons?

I needed the money.

I spent it all on a motorbike

take care.

Mr. Stacy Samira has just made a mess all over my washing

what is a young dog Miss has gotten used to learning

Come on. Come on.

Come on

Listen to me Oh China.

That call me your old China or Taiwan.

We own Hong Kong.

I've been on the thunder a hitman.

Ben O'Reilly. Remember Ben?

I asked how much does it cost to have you rubbed out?

You know, it's only $800

thinking that

your friends could pass the hat around couldn't they?

Anyway, I found my publisher incidentally has a photo of what you burn

all except the last three pages

if I suffer accident then sell to you.

He's got 800 to spare you

see target than you used to be?

You're bluffing only one way to find out.

You don't know who you're up against dice.

They gotta be pretty damn high

you Kelly.

Anyway See you in church

what are we doing it?

Get out the spirit

something about the smell of curly brings out the beast in me and summary.

And I wondered which of us would kill the other

if certain American interest didn't get first.

I drove past to green and clear Pacific

not yet choked and corrupted with oil and thought about

things like the Arabs and the Americans and the profit motive and

CIA back revolutions and how close they were getting to my hometown.

I thought about Liz McCready and his daughter

to a mother and how to keep her alive.

It wasn't gonna be easy.

There were a billion reasons I guessed all of them petrodollars

why neither of us would outlive our next July

you slept with all those members merely further

your investigation toward making people

it can be done and

it can be done

She was all any old full grasp on beautiful teenage massacres

with an electric complex and all the help in the world.

She knew alive was a great predestined adventure.

And if it ended like Bonnie and Clyde so be it.

It was girls like this old foods like Agamemnon died.

Yeah, there's no fence who wants to see you?

Oh, yeah.

Wait here, over here

I'll add you in on something remaining night's in big trouble.

Quite funny. I Adiga.

Why don't you do it here? We're doing a combined Malaysian Australian Army exercise

and Cananga just showing my lads the local wonders.

How'd you know I was here while I saw your drive up.

She's a bit young, isn't she?

She's old enough.

Jean think about all this.

Not with Jane anymore.

You didn't say so. And a postcard. And now we only played Cheston

we have a beer banks.

Want to tell me about it?

Oh, we tried to have kids all those years and we gave up that she got pregnant by another man.

Not bad luck. It shouldn't have made any difference.

But it did did. She miscarried.

And that made a lot of difference. And I got on the pistol on Cleany.

So that I was to tell you that

this army exercise might be more

than an army exercise and I knew what it was.

Listen with great attention to what you thought was

if I was to tell you that the Prime Minister might be prevailed upon by certain people know to call it off.

I listened with great attention to the names of the people who might prevail on the Prime Minister.

I don't play chess with me, Richard.

Give you my word. There's an Officer and a Gentleman which you know,

I am not at what to say we're happening. and I were in it.

I'd invite you to join it. And I'd say no.

Yep. Well, I don't know anything about it says to him.

He could have been misinformed or looking on the wind

when it was methylated could you inquire bloody Earth

but I'm going to be put up against the wall this weekend.

I want another reason.

I'll tell you what.

Why don't we

Rhonda overdosed 600 hours tomorrow.

At the chessboard on the beach. We'll have a game and a bit of a chat.

Okay, there's Leftenant Colonel Kim alongside my assistant

This is Mike Stacy made this beautiful china

How do you do?

This is a lovely country.

Yeah, it is very like the east coast of Africa.

More so by the minute.

It was clear to me then as I took the back road round

that I was going to be asked to be part of this political takeover nonsense,

finding this part of it and I knew he was maybe quiet it was up to something else.

Then I remembered how Bill Todd climbing and I used to sit on this cave veranda long pop between patrols.

Drink Chatterbait and ask endlessly as the night fell and the stars came out.

What if? What the fuck is this a labor?

I don't know. I think it should leave the Gold Coast.

Should I fly south? Yeah.

On the node flight tomorrow to Sydney you can stay with my sister.

Sounds thrilling

Do you want me gone? No.

We come to know why.

Just do what you're told.

I'm a stranger. him myself.

Don't ask me just another face in someone else's way.

There's no telling

I don't know I think so.

Sounds crazy.

Yeah never was

you start from your cocky tower strangers

you staying tonight?

I don't know.

Maybe the morgue

How about my place?

Do you know I'm making a list to my mind

of all the people that really care about

your answer

my very short list

blood flow to your brain

has been interrupted, and you're blacking out and it'll get worse.

So I should stop drinking if you want to live.

I say of course if you don't, that's another matter

and I'd recommend on paranormal

in a room with a view

that three dozen bottles should see you.

You're interested in the way people die.

It's a great professional interest to me.

Out of the girl in a hotel room died one

you thought was scattered McCreevy overdose

who gave it

could have been anyone

could have been you.

Supposing I wanted to give somebody else an overdose,

heart attack stroke have not a money

I'd asked my local police commissioner if I were you.

How much would I have to pay?

A lot of people die in Surfers Paradise

they come here to die as true

I mean most of them are over 60

Already s&d as towns what Australians have instead of an afterlife or

a life become like Christmas Beatles

crawling down in the wall to die within the smell fussy

good town for doctors

that's how much did they pay you to rub out less McCready

and the girl when you thought was his daughter

I think the alcohol has affected your brain more than I Do.

Right

good whiskey.

Yeah.

I mean no doctor's orders to happen,

says travelers

the doctor said sort of brings his diagnosis into disrepute,

Stacy, what's happening?

I saw your shampoo. Is that right?

Yeah, sure. I'll get some more in the morning.

I got your ticket. The coach leaves that a quarter to 11

Great. Thanks. That's okay.

Well, I'm off to bed now.

Going to tuck me why not?

She's nice. She's a good friend.

Did someone try to kill you? Yes.

It's really happening, isn't it? Yes.

Do you feel that as you did,

right do you know

I'll miss you.

I'll miss you too.

You're going to sleep with her? Absolutely.

Wouldn't make too much noise.

Why not? get jealous? Or jealous me?

Jealous of anybody Sweet Dreams

due to an IQ

Uncle Mike

Do you like summary more than me?

For me? More than my own reread

I'm very fond of you, Stacy.

And maybe you I had a phrase sexual friends.

It's good isn't it? says a lot.

Too good for my taste.

Whatever, I'm the lovers.

I saw the light and became sexual friends.

I think so.

In our marriage you're not in 52

Rebecca and Anna,

and I wouldn't have married you

just saw the light.

Too much light on too many subjects.

We learn too much like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil at once

and whammo goodbye paradise

you wake up with a headache in the parking lot outside

Stacy I'll try not to

all together believe that

I've been too close too often

not to be a total car take care please.

I will hold me

Are you going

out again at chess

I was dreaming about a young boy army uniform

standing in the dark outside the dance hall

to see pounding in the sand blowing the waiting

for him to kiss me

it was very real

I woke up to see you beside me.

Snoring

yeah time flies

okay my love

yes

if I don't get back or get back by nine

to get in my car by the back row to the airport

make sure she gets plane okay.

Gives me Stacy istimewa

right today's your move

I never couldn't get used to Rami

our best man

crystal clear everything and before seeing

all I can do is take your bishop

I lose my night and have a good see the office good.

Check. Well, what's obvious to the key mind

is often unthinkable to the data and honest one.

Nothing is unthinkable ever.

What did you find out about the exercise?

I mean, he said it's true. And he knew about it all along.

I planned it all. When is it start?

Tomorrow at over 623 hours from now.

Where does it end?

In a better order of things.

What a guillotine and cattle Avenue and

he was Minister for Public Safety. shunning and

who was Prime Minister Ted Godfrey

know someone more pragmatic

is dice

Christ

we want you with the state.

Government the obvious grainy what have I been missing out?

The oil offshore the American money.

Oil offshore the uranium inland and all the mineral wealth cleared through South Africa.

A few more years women marching West.

You're mad.

stark raving mad. Yeah

is one of those things we talked about on that veranda.

That was just talk on a veranda by a young man maddened by choda pay

In the youth and another world was it

I have a choice.

Every man always has a choice. At least one choice.

Look, I'm up.

I seem to have mishandled a very important Cesky

I got a bad liver.

I'm a Chandi of two hours on my good days.

My old friends are dying off like flies.

My wife is on with my lawyer.

I'm a tired man.

Yes, you join us.

We want you for us all that.

Why don't you to grow up for God's sake.

Things don't happen like this.

It takes 100 USD introduced Sunday drinking will be up in New Eden

if you should change your mind. Why did you bullshit me tardy?

All that ecological transcendental rhubarb and

William fucking Shakespeare stuff going on mate?

It wasn't bullshit. I believe most of those things those who

don't believe that you put up against the wall

you two are crazy you know that? Crazy?

What? Oh, Jesus.

Stairs he took on flex and slid through the revolution.

Will you give me your word that Kathy won't be harmed?

And all me

We can't promise

I think we can remember the old days and other reasons.

Okay, thanks.

I'll send you a postcard from the People's Republic of North Victorian

government visitors anytime write a learned article for the National times.

Ever and forever farewell Cassius.

If we should meet again why we shall smile not well

then his parting was well made.

Day.

The blood out of your shirt Mr. Stacey.

Thank you, Mrs. Gordon. I suppose these accidents will happen.

Where are you going?

Jesus Christ, I borrow your vehicle

Why mine got blown up just got blown up

you want to borrow money to live

a tribe a pint sized Orientals and and underdressed American with a band around he said I love your friends.

Why don't you tell them nothing? Not a thing.

They want to know where you were. I have the distinct advantage of knowing where you are.

It's a God's honest truly last night.

I'm gonna have a liquid breakfast, backed by six.

But only if I have the parties agreement in favor of the one man

I consider capable of filling my husband shoes

in parliament, in the cabinet and in the War Office.

A great Australian. Mr. Bill Todd

Thank you, gentlemen.

Dog

One thing you could always depend on was the word of An Officer and a Gentleman.

All those treaties with all those American Indians

all those peasants promised amnesty after the peasants revolt

I could feel my life coming to its end and

I couldn't work out why?

Stacy turnaround

please get some work

for a long time in the dark I was the sand in an hourglass over 1000 centuries sliding away.

Then I was a Christmas beetle, looking up in reverence at roaring grave breakers under three hanging moons.

And I work it was a room I'd been in before but everything was wrong.

There were Asians and cables and a device for brewing tea.

And Kathy McCready was sitting

Mike stone.

I wanted to pull the dark back over me, but everything was still there.

And everything was wrong.

I felt I needed to drink along final Magnum of Dawn perineum

and along cool sleep to judgment day.

I didn't get the brand I wanted,

but I nearly got the rest.

There police commissioner what's happening?

It's the first day of the new world

the army exercise is about to start.

Hello Mrs. McCrady.

And so dad Godfrey our observers know and so Ted gives a signal

we shoot in between the eyes

saves referendums something like that.

Kathy why are we still alive?

You're both after die of natural causes.

Knocks guiding you that way.

Kind of us in trouble.

We can't wait that long I'm afraid I've been offering you a drink for a long time.

Now you're gonna have it?

Three said what are you

with Catholic? I'm not my mommy to Jesus Christ for the very precise bank

I wonder what

I looked up and but oh the Garden of Eden was in big trouble

word got out that happiness was getting pumped in the army

moved in the way

the army always moves in on everything without exception

join the army and visit the pearly gates

I was sorry to see the Aruba go something about

it reminded me of human potential

I didn't know

what the hell was going on

but Jordan Klein is seem to be diminishing?

forever and forever

everything under control here, major,

major, not too many casualties.

Most of the majors are expendable.

We'll call it an explosion and an ammunition dump.

Well done my lead. Take a week.

Leave your lie on the beach somewhere for a while.

Thank you, sir. All right, Chad.

Drank again, Michael.

Absolutely.

The gentleman's bus.

Oh, am I gonna tell him you want to lose either a cover?

What's he doing? moonlighting and a second job?

Don't be silly. He's one of us.

So right

so I knew about it a lot,

because I did. So what happened?

Seven American interest got wind of the oil offshore and

organized with certain Asian and Australian Army officers along traditional lines.

But they made the mistake of inviting me in and

I got to work on the army officers and organized a little Calico,

which you saw today was a joke.

Yeah, only a few Asians did expendable and lonely Buffalo

and meta McCready and a few other wobblies.

Part of the exercises he wants to flesh out the wobblies,

make less McCready

less was decidedly wobbly and built up

playing the bleeding ham Hamlet for the last okay, it's three pill.

What is super vitamin keeps you young.

Look at me.

Gulf was last

lady, David Walsh.

The doctor at the table and he was saying bye bye Blackbird and

then We dealt with him from a great height

he was a little bastard

shake hands with him you cut yourself to death

I thought she was here to get me

mustn't get tickets on yourself Michael.

You weren't at all dangerous and furthermore you were working on our side

and you actually got the Cassie McCready which

we couldn't do hand grilled her very efficiently when you run back

little porch and your preposterous little car

and you banana

my banana but much like a fractal when Curley and his mates

were working however it was the only suffering you had in your pocket

What are you to do not just some laps trades

whole numbers man with a controversial knighthood

I'm gonna secret out of Northern operations for Army Intelligence job

you might have had an insight in the service and state of the moon can I have this regardless?

Of course clearly Of course.

Given thank God relations with a communist to these folders

has been incompetence of course,

now I can trust your basic common sense.

Now your effort to write and state

Yes, did I revise a few things in your manuscript if I were you?

Chapter 15 You may think that one's a bit superfluous

in chapter 12 paragraphs eight and nine

Yeah, why not just for all time so

that's it for old times sake

good enough yeah,

this is this is good

that old man get the blank line.

It was a good flag in his day to Gomorrah.

Very satisfied

it's a big explosion

Ladies, ladies, I've I got a surprise for you.

Plan B. The night I bought a Golliwog for Kathy

as I had 12 years before and waited calmly among young people

being gentle with one another in the dark.

Looking at them, and thinking, what had happened to certain elmen monitors surrounded capture paradise.

And what that meant the strange bright place Australians went to

instead of dying, I realized paradise is youth.

And all of us in our middle age and old age tried to recapture it in different ways.

Like lonely buffalo did and toddy and Ted Godfrey and the lady for buttons and bows.

And all those other hold failures, like my good self with nowhere to go,

but into the heads of the very young.

But the young are tougher than they seem.

And I know in the end, what's most important,

which is to dance and a youth make love to be adored, and

their proper season, and believe all manner of things that are a time till the time ends.

And they know when it has it's written in the slow alteration of their cells and

you can't change that however you try.

Kathy and I met and talked and part of the way I knew we had to,

she knew too, and I raised my milkshake too, and wished her good luck.

I imagined her naked and kindly to my old age

when last time and took my old bones off into the early dawn.

I thought about homes and families and Kate and everything I'd loved

and lost and tasted once and been afraid of ever since I was a schoolboy in this strange time.

I wasn't sadder or wiser or perceptively older, but I knew how old I was.

And that was good too in his way.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their hometowns,

signing up Hello