Some of my positive influences have been Jack and Jill books, comics (notably The Eagle especially after it's integration with Look and Learn), mixed interpretations of, mainly "Christian" scriptures, Winston Churchill, The first incarnation of Dr. Who, Edith Blyton, Capt. W. E. Johns, top-shelf magazines, Alistair MacLean, John Pilger, Bob Dylan, Racheal Carson, Erich von Daniken, and Wilber Smith. The negative influences have very rarely come from the written word, but rather from venemous mouths. These drove my "pugilistic" tendences, which long dominated the wa more...
