‘My career proceeded quite smoothly, as I climbed the academic ladder from _lector_ to professor, but in terms of intellectual stimulus or inspiration, I was very disenchanted at the time.’
‘We drank and partied with my parents, the other new lecturers, the German _lector_ , Klaus, the French lecteur, Patrice, Russell a student and poet with long, thin hair, Vicky, a German student, and Andy who ran the hall of residence.’