I see my life in many ways as the stuff of the ordinary and for
this very reason it is my hope that others who read my memoirs will
come to see in their own ordinary lives other stuff worthy of
putting into words and finding a meaning that is there but,
somehow, has slipped under the surface and can not be seen. Like
Thoreau I have sucked out all the marrow of life that I could find
from bones that were available and which I could add to my meal as
millions of others have done also. 
For readers, it is my hope, as it was of Benjamin Franklin, that
what I write, every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of
voice will be so perfectly well turned and well placed, as to be
pleasing, even if readers are not interested in the subject. I
would like, too, as the Austrian novelist Elias Canetti phrased it,
that my autobiography contain on every page something no one has
ever heard of. I think it quite possible that it does. Sad to say
many readers probably dont want to know of it and most people will
never read it at all.
But in life one's hope must be realistic or, so
often,disappointment sets in and then depression.--Ron Price,
Tasmania
