All My Sins Remembered: Another Part of a Life - The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters

OXFORD: 'Thus opened for me a period of unparalleled opportunities to which I remained obstinately blind. I was overwhelmed before I started by the aura of intellectual brilliance with which Oxford was surrounded'. marvelous university where I had the chance of meeting and forming friendships with people of an age and outlook which could change me for ever'. any enthusiasm; I cannot now understand the solidity of the foundation of self-satisfaction and complacency that carried me through a period of failure and a prospect of even worse to come. I remained dangerously unaware of the universe in which I continued to live'. echoing corridors ... Nevertheless I felt that here in this part of London I was more nearly in my Class'. the stink of decay from Imperial Britain was what the athletic perfume of post-war Oxford had failed to disguise in 1919. This was twenty years later and I still could not get the smell of Glory out of my hair'. grateful establishment would have inflicted one on my completion of so many years of undetected nothingness, the ribbon designed in lavish colors of a nightmare of a morning after the night before'. be able to go on trying to find ways of saying it through the years.' and that it is that between you and me there is already an enduring love that cannot be easily shaken even in this uncertain and painful world'.