‘I know what it is that’s the worst
thing of all. It’s the skating-rink. I have a six-sided skating badge sewn to
my jumper. The key I use to tighten my skates is on a shoelace round my neck.
When you go down onto the ice, the skating-rink looks like a little bracelet of
light far out in the darkness … Hundreds of shadowy figures skate round and
round, all in the same direction, resolutely and pointlessly, and two freezing
old men sit playing in the middle under a tarpaulin … Everybody just skates
faster, strange shadows making scrunching and squeaking noises as they pass … The
skating rink was the isle of sorrow.’
And here is some more material for
that history of student life I’m never going to write. I found this in
Siegfried Sassoon’s The Old Century and
Seven More Years, the first part of his autobiography, in which he describes
his abortive encounter with the Law Tripos at Cambridge University in the early
1900s:
‘Dutifully I attended droning
lectures, desperately scribbling fragments of what I overheard and seldom
understanding what my notes were about when I perused them in private.
Note-taking seemed to be physical rather than mental exercise … Toiling at my
text-books, I discovered again and again that I had turned over two pages at
once without noticing anything wrong.’
Such a deep piece of writing, such a powerful use of emotions. It all depends on how one perceives things and his interests and preferences, whether negative or positive. What may be positive for some may be negative for others.
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