And that was clearer to me in the course of looking at his life and understanding, as they say, the Native Americans say, "" Do not criticize the man until you can walk in his moccasins. "" But in conjuring his life, it was okay and very straightforward to portray a Caribbean life in England in the 1970s with bowls of plastic fruit, polystyrene ceiling tiles, settees permanently sheathed in their transparent covers that they were delivered in.