Extraits

So find someone who doesn’t love you for the person you are, but despite the person you are.

If I die, never forget this.

1. Jump off the roller coaster.

2. Grab the hanging rope, wait until you get to the ship, and then take the keg of rum.

3. Grab the flask of oil from the lamp.

4. Use the oil with the rope, and the rope with the keg of rum. Go to the big snow monkey and put the keg of rum under the snow monkey’s arm.

5. When LeChuck turns up and tries to burn you, use the pepper on him so that he sneezes on the rope. It will catch fire, the keg of rum will explode, and LeChuck will die. And that is how you complete the final level of Monkey Island

Your mother can roll her eyes all she wants. I am not risking this knowledge dying with my generation.

But when you’re the most angry at me, I want you to try to remember that, to me, you’ll always be the tiny one-yearold boy standing naked in the hallway with a toothless grin and a cuddly lion clutched to your chest. Whenever I’m difficult. Whenever I’m embarrassing. Unreasonable. Unfair. I want you to think back to that day. That day when you refused to tell me where the hell you’d hidden my damn car keys.

And I want you to remember that it was you who started it.