'I was surprised when they asked me to write this. It’s been over a year since I got out of the satire game and I’ve got to tell you I am very glad that sorry chapter of my life has been writ, read, torn from its binding, balled up and hurled into the sea. It can bob about in my wake all it wants as I disappear gaily over the horizon. I’m outta there. Sayonara, hepcats!' (Introduction)