We would be having dinner and somebody would say something. I wish I could… I wish they were recorded. I don't remember the specifics. Somebody would say something and someone else would begin to tell a story, and we would roar with laughter and he would then get higher and higher on our laughter and then someone would jump in with something else, and it was a wonderful moment. It was improvisational theatre, it was improvisational theatre. And I got that spirit in Whacking Off and in the chapters that come after that. And so it was… writing it was wonderful, writing it was wonderful. I was riding a wave.

[Q] It must have been, kind of, exhilarating to give a title… a chapter the title Cunt Crazy?

I wasn't going to say… I'd not been saying that, you know. You've… Cunt Crazy… Cunt Crazy and The Jewish Blues I think are the… Cunt Crazy, oh it was great fun, you're right. It was great… it was great fun. This was… I shared the propriety of my education, and I say to you I had an excellent education, but it was going to… it was holding me down in some way. It was worthwhile while I had it, but I couldn't be impeded by it as a writer.