‘Don′t any of you come sneaking around or you′ll feel the size of my fist and a length of sjambok across your bums, ja,’ he shouted, shaking fist and whip; then charged down the boards with the look of an angry honeybadger so that the fisherfolk scattered like gulls.

I would have given a million dollars to fart a good loud juicy honker, right then and there […]

Following the example of Talitha—“the daring one”—Paul junior [Getty] had started experimenting with increasingly perilous drugs, and together they floated off on the hippie trail around the East.

He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.