Bill Nighy

Such was the blinkering effect of the local dream time that it would be some years before I recognised that certain aspects of our California heritage did not add up, starting with, but by no means limited to, the fact that I had delivered it to an audience of children and parents who had, for the most part, arrived in California during the 1930s, refugees from the Dust Bowl.

It was after this realisation that I began trying to find the truth

quote point of california to locate some message in its history i picked up a book of revisionist studies on the subject but abandoned it on discovering that i was myself quoted twice

You will have perhaps realized by now, a good deal earlier than I myself realized, that this book represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up.

Confusions as much about America as about California.

Misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely.

That's the snippet.

And just see how you feel.

But Persevere, it's a significant book.

Thank you for listening.

I hope I've helped pass the time and haven't made things worse.

So I'll see you next time.

And in the meantime, stay loose.