Rachel Fury

A second blow came when Williams left her and their son, Charlie, a year later. Samson has written that when he walked out, Williams quoted Cyril Connolly's famous dictum to her: "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." His attitude came as a total shock. "But he's a complicated person. I was utterly utterly miserable. Part of it is the feeling of responsibility towards your child and just feeling that you'd utterly failed. I still, to this day, don't think it was my fault. I saw Heathcote the other day. We had a good conversation about it. It's very nice, eight years later, having a conversation where you're able to talk about it. I said: 'I was never going to stop you working, you know.'"

Feeling at her lowest ebb, Samson believed nothing would ever be right. "I really thought that was it. When you're in despair, you do. God, it's too horrible. To go into despair is a funny thing and I definitely thought that Charlie's life would be better, maybe, if I wasn't in it."
"I just thought: 'My parents are perfectly good parents.' We'd go and stay with my parents in Devon and it was very stable. And I used to feel almost bad then packing him back into the car. I was almost jealous of my parents at that stage because they had a home and each other and we were living on friends' sofas."

Samson went into journalism and ended up working mainly for the Sunday Times, doing a column called Style File, an early-Nineties version of the offbeat gossipy social columns that are all the rage now. She hated it.
"Life was hard for a couple of years. But I wouldn't have wanted my life to be good all the way through. I'm glad that I had a couple of years where I was living on my wits."

Mutual friends of herself and David Gilmour tried to get the two of them together for years. At numerous dinner parties they sat beside each other and had friendly but polite discussions about children and music. Then, when there hadn't been a dinner for quite some time, Gilmour asked her to a U2 concert.

"I thought: 'Gosh, I should go, because he might be a really good character for a novel.' And I had a boyfriend at the time - this is a really horrible story - who I wasn't that keen on. And I said to the boyfriend: 'I've known him for a while. There's nothing going to happen and, God, it is something that might be really useful one day if I needed a character like this. He's larger than life. Will you babysit?' And so this boyfriend - oh dear, it was terrible - babysat." She managed to get him babysitting for the next two nights as well. That was enough.

They married in July 1994 and became parents, one way or another, of five children. "It had been a very lonely experience being with one little boy. It was like a bonus getting all these children because I was ready to be in a big family. The youngest was six, the girls were 10, 12 and 16. The 16-year-old was a challenge because that's the age they don't want another woman coming into their father's life. I think it helped that I was a mother already, actually, because I think that they can see that you are mother material." Since then the couple have had two boys together Joe, who is just five, and Gabriel, who will soon be three. Gilmour adopted Charlie.

Samson co-wrote seven songs for the Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell, an album which went to number one in the US just two weeks after its release. It was a clever way of making her independently wealthy going into marriage with a multi-millionaire.
Although Samson had wanted to write, and during her lonely times in London wrote 30-page letters home, when she went to the Sunday Times, she was terrified. "I used to ring my mum from the newsroom: 'Do you mind if I just read you what I've written?' And other people, they'd be staring. 'Hello, Mum, I've just got 1,000 words.' I think it's the act reading to someone whose opinion you care about."

Writing fiction is no different: "I will write a paragraph sometimes and I will have to call David into the study and say: 'David, do you mind if I just read this to you?' And it's not because I think he's going to give me expert guidance. He's incredibly patient because he'll be in the middle of something else and I'm hopping up and down with impatience: 'I have to read it to you right now!'" Samson says that when she's working she is like a woman possessed. The characters go about their ordinary lives in her head, doing the banal stuff that they would do between appearances in her novel. Describing how she combines motherhood and writing, she has written about the way the boys would wait to ambush her on the way to the bathroom. "On more than one occasion, I climbed out of the study window and peed on the lawn."
The summer is given over to enjoying her children and in September she will start again. Anyway, she says, her writing is good for them. "I never want that thing of saying, 'Everything I gave up for you.' I never want to say that to them. I never want to say to them: `I could have written a novel if it hadn't been for you.' That would be terrible."

"and Driven wants some french toast.Anybody having a french ,please heed his call,or you all will be forced to sit with your heads between your knees while Driven hammers down your door.Achtung,WofWaf,Gesundheit and all that jazz"-so it ends here ?

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what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

who'se hiding ? he cant hide without his eyebrows showing!! even a deaf can hear their twitching inanticipation.

I could have sworn thath this was the Rachel Fury thread...the Polly Sampson thread is elsewhere

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Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)

Yeah... what the hell is all that Polly stuff doing here anyways?

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