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to change my name to Spears, I never did like the name
Mulligan. The other kids at school used to make jokes about my
name. Spears seemed like a pretty cool name to me, and lots of
people began to call me by my last name. Mum and Ken had two more
children together, my sister Sally and my brother Tom.
    We all have
childhoods, but it was at university that my life really changed,
at the age of 20 I lost my mind, and I found myself.
     
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Chapter 1
    To plead insanity one
must show
    that they did not know
the difference between right and wrong.
    For my life, I plead
“no knowledge of good and evil.”
     
     
    My “thing” as
a teenager and as a young adult was that wherever I was, I had to
be the most wasted person there. It’s like I thought it made me
cool to be blind drunk, like the village drunkard in an early Irish
novel. There’s a saying, “beer then grass you’re on you r arse, grass then beer you’re in
the clear,” my method was grass then beer then grass. It wasn’t a
night out if I wasn’t violently ill. I looked up to famous drunks
and dope fiends, I loved Hunter S. Thompson, I wanted to be like
him, completely out of my mind on drugs and liquor. So cool, so
very cool… or so I thought.
    After school I
entered into a degree in chemical engineering at UNSW. During
second year I started to call it “advanced index reading,” it
seemed like all we had to do was learn our way around the textbook
and the course was a piece of piss. Chemical engineering is all
about a myriad of different equations for every possible situation
in chemical plants, so because there were so many damn equations
you get to take the textbook into the exam. You look up the
equation you need, then you look up all the values you need to
substitute into those equations. All you had to do was learn where
to find everything in the textbook and you could pass the
exams.
    I made it
through second year uni with no problems, then things began to
change because my best friends at uni were both studying similar
but different degrees. My friend Ben studied petroleum engineering,
while my friend Adam studied industrial chemistry, and when third
year came around we really didn’t have many classes together any
more. I spent a lot more time on my own, and I began to get a
little weird, and when the going gets weird, the weird turn
pro.
    I still hung
out with my old crew from high school, we called ourselves Team
Tron. We got the name from an obsession with the 3D Simpsons
episode, there is a line where Homer asks “has anyone seen that
movie Tron?” Team Tron consisted of my friends Tim, Davo, Nogg and
myself. Nogg got schizophrenia in high school, we used to laugh
about it, he claimed he had five magic powers and we were always
trying to find out what his powers were. So by this time Nogg had
stopped smoking pot because of his schizophrenia, and that was
pretty much all the rest of us ever did, so Nogg didn’t hang around
with us as much as he did in high school. Whenever I did see Nogg
he was always going on about “picking up hags,” but I began to get
paranoid about Tim and Davo. All we ever did was smoke bongs and
play Nintendo 64, I wondered why we never tried to meet any women.
I thought I was in some poofter club and I was the only one who
wasn’t in on the secret that we were all gay. I became paranoid about a lot of my
friends. I also thought that Ben and Adam weren’t really my
friends, that they thought I was lame. I never felt like I was
cool, that’s why I wanted to be crazy so badly , because I thought it would make me
cool.
    I did see my
friend Silk fairly regularly too, we went to school together as
well, I didn’t see him as often as my other friends, but I used to
go up to Katoomba to visit, we always got along well. He was living
with this girl Priscilla, he had a child with her, Isaac, they’re
not together any more, but I always got the impression she didn’t
really like the way I’d always turn