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When I did 'Bumble-ardy, ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
