“I don’t know what I did to make the change.” “Does it matter?” Defrates asks. “I want to understand. I need to.” “Up! Up! Up!” he shouts at a heap of kids, before a bundling has the chance to catch on. “I imagine,” he says, attention back with me, “you will have assumed a different attitude to something or other. Taken a new approach.” “So what of that day when my mum visited me in prison? It’s supposed to happen in a few days’ time. But I’m not there. I lived that day.” “It has—to use your term—updated.” “So it’s gone? And what about those days when I woke up in that horrible bedsit? Are
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