And It's On For Young And Old

Much ground can be covered in the space of 10,000 words, writes Jane Sullivan. GERMAINE GREER knows what it is to feel rage. At her 50th birthday party, one of the guests, "a smug bastard", started to rile her with his comments about Australian Aborigines. "I felt my heart rate increasing and my breath coming faster," she writes. "The muscles of my throat began to ache and my mouth turned dry as ash. Then my voice went funny as if someone else was speaking through me. My eyes were stinging with ...