The Importance of Living on the Edge

"I was squatted for about, um, who's about three and a half years? Good God," he says. "As long as you got into the, um, the building and you didn't cause any damage or if you did, you know, if you, it wasn't a big deal." He lived in an 18th-floor flat furnished with stuff that we found on the street. The year was 1932 and I stole a pie from a cooling window and then lived down by the train tracks and it beams out of a can. You'd use things you'd read like I, there was a pie cooling on the, oh, by the open window. Yeah. It