Peter Goers

Get stuffed, because that's not the point at all, is it?

And that's ridiculous.

Love and the memory of laughter and the memory of fondness and a few pictures and

And it was all much harder for my sister who raised children without her own mother, without a grandmother or without grandparents.

It was much, much harder for them.

But what remains is my mother's smiling face and her love for me.

And what remains, Richard, is my father loved movies.

He loved particularly the Marx Brothers.

And I was... One night I was in my bed in the middle of what seemed like the middle of the night and he got me out of bed in my little pyjamas and my hush puppy slippers and my little Onkaparinga dressing gown, probably age seven or eight, and he propped me up in front of a...

black and white Chrysler television, and we watched Duck Soup, the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup.

And he and I sat there with tears of laughter rolling down our faces.

And that is the most precious moment I've ever shared, I think, with anybody.

It was an extraordinary moment of love and laughter.

And that's what remains.

Well, because I don't think that sort of loss ever completely passes, does it?

I was going to call it carelessness after that Oscar Wilde quote, you know, to lose one parent is a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness.

But I went for the more Tennessee Williams quote.

title, I think, because that's perhaps more New Orleans.

But no, it doesn't.

And they remain in the air over that city, don't they, I suppose.