Richard is the only man that I know who can pass a kidney stone without having to be in hospital with some serious pain killers. In fact, I believe he would be one of those people (if men were to give birth) who walk around during contractions and do crossword puzzles - and then politely announce that the baby was coming and pop it out like magic!
I read a book last night - not one that I'd recommend, since it was laced with obscenities - that great writing crutch I love so much... But it had a really good story. A man wakes up in someone else's body. He's a really good man - sound character and morals... unlike the man he's swopped with. The man who has taken over his identity is a loathsome, unethical misogynist and sees the swop as a rescue from his miserable existence. So the main character is stuck to make the best of a very very bad situation. What I liked about the story was this: it posed the notion that who we are determines our lives, and not the other way around. The machievallian (I always get that spelling wrong) character thinks this is his opportunity to start over - but not having conquered his own destructive and selfish habits, he ends up destroying the second chance he was given. The main character Max makes lemons from lemonade and turns a prospective dire existence into what he had before - only with more friends and loved ones. There's a quote at the beginning of the book which I understand to mean this: everything that we need to solve our problems and deal with our specific lives lies within us, we just need to be brave enough to access it and recognise our ability to overcome. It was an interesting read.
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