We knew Marius not only through joining COD, but also during his beatnik period. We met him in Cape Town in 1959. Paddy Roome, Tony Levy and other ex-Jeppe School pupils who were at university with us put Marius in touch with us, when we went down to Cape Town for six months in April 1959. We went to Cape Town because Tony had been newly recruited by the Star and sent to CT to attend the Argus journalist's training course for six months. We got pretty friendly with Marius while we were in CT, and with him (possibly through him) we met Breyten Breytenbach and Jan Rabie and Ken Parker. At the time, we thought Marius was a bit mad (in the nicest possible way!!) with a great sense of humour but somewhat inclined make up or embroider facts for effect - e.g. to make the story funnier, he didn't mind a joke against himself. We only half believed in his stutter... He was very goodlooking in those days, and could be extremely charming -as he continued to be,...
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