Subsequent efforts of hindsight and occasional nostalgia keep it very fresh in my mind. Particularly a heavy rain, a warm and muggy night, the sound of crickets, a cold beer on a hot day (...)
The sliding glass doors throw wide open to catch the early morning breeze and look out on the sunlit view as he sang along with Nat Cole. He always struck me in these moments as being a very happy man. Whenever i hear that distintive dry voice i think of my father and of Africa in the early morning.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
W.H.Auden said he detested fascism because at public school he lived in a fascist state. It is rarely a constante state of affairs, but is it is not difficult for private life in a boarding school temporarily to take on certain fascists characteristics. It is the sense of being a victim, or potencial victim, that lingers on: (...)
the way you sacrifice all principles in order to save your skin; the ease with witch ideology of the dominat group seduces you (...)
If you are lucky everything changes at school as you grow older and more senior.
william boyd
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the way you sacrifice all principles in order to save your skin; the ease with witch ideology of the dominat group seduces you (...)
If you are lucky everything changes at school as you grow older and more senior.
william boyd
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