Throw Me a Snappy Answer Department

This morning's Radio National news reporter who asked the Indonesian earthquake survivor how he felt about this tragedy happening so soon after the tsunami, was good. But so was Fran Kelly a few minutes later.

Ms Kelly (Breakfast, ABC RN, today), to Morris West's biographer:

"Morris West grew up in a large and relatively poor family. Did that help mould him?"

Possible answers:

1) "No, Fran, and it was precisely because of West that the Nature Vs Nurture debate was discarded by science more than 60 years ago."
2) "Not at all. Such was the tragedy of young Morris's profound autism."
3) "No, it seeems not. Naturally, scholars are still divided as to what might have happened in those formative first 18 years."
4) "No. Records show that his parents were too poor to spare any influence."
5) "Yes, and that's just one baffling thing of many about the life of this enigmatic author."