Paper Talks is the result of, originally, massive cases of boredom, written during classes we found less than thrilling. The Talks were written in 1983 and 1984 in our last two years of high school as we prepared for our tertiary admissions examinations. In our last three months of high school, when the pressure was beginning to get to us, we gathered as many Talks as we could find and compiled them into a book for our own pleasure. This is the result.