ABSTRACT
One Tuesday when I was about ten I swam thirty-two lengths which is one mile. And when I climbed out of the water I felt like a big, fat lump of jelly and my legs were like rubber and there was this huge man there with tremendous muscles all over him and I went up to him and said ‘I’ve just swum a mile.’ And he said, How many lengths was that then?’ ‘Thirty-two,’ I said. And the man looked into the water and said, ‘I’ve got a lad who can do ninety.’
