



[3. A police article summed it up well when talking about Tilly: “She has been in conflict with society all her life. She has fought it with words, with action, with her bare hands. She has held it by the throat and shaken it. She has spat in its face. Her sense of values, her code of morals and of ethics, are her own and she will tolerate no interference. For the average man, her life has held that singular fascination the criminologist describes – the fascination of the thunderstorm.”]

[3. Part of the horrific side effects that I allude to here was a crackdown on gay men. “Bumper” Farrell in particular would go out of his way to harass any “bohemian” types.][3. I don’t know if the helmeted “bobby” cops are an anachronism. I found some photos that said they were from Australia that showed such outfits, but they could easily have been mislabeled.]

I note this in the citations and art notes, but the main source on this is Larry Writer’s excellent book Razor, which was adapted into an Australian mini-series. You should check it out, if you have a chance!

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