On a piece of wasteland in Leeds I once saw a used condom in the grass. A dead and sordid thing. And yet to my thirteen-year-old mind the whole mystery of life seemed to stream through it. Nothing Iâ€™ve seen since has been so eloquent of the thrilling and terrifying mysteries of life.

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