Steve went on to become New Zealand's first professional multisporter, eking out a precarious existence at home and mostly unable to raise the sponsorship to contest the more lucrative international races.

Quentin Barry had always wished that he had been called Sean or Brian. It was hard to be called Quentin at a Christian Brothers school in the 1970s. But that was the name they had wanted, his beautiful mother Sara Barry had wanted, she who had always lived in a dream world far more elegant that the one she really lived in.

David Astle (2012) Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words, →ISBN: “The home was in Leatherhead, which Ximeneans would despise as a signal for L, but let's keep with the action.”

Everybody fools somebody sometime — one way or another. But Abraham Lincoln said no one could fool all of the people all of the time. Well, I can. I can fool you even wearing a moo-moo.