The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend

Author:Pete Townshend
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2019-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I am tempted, as I continue to confess, a narrator, to talk about myself. I am aware that in groups of people—friends, families, and associates—trends of thinking can spread in an unhealthy way. I am also aware that good and positive energies and theses can be shared as well; faith in nature and in human potential for good can be nurtured through conversation and enthusiasm for art and literature and the fine works of great men and women from history.

Rain was an exception. Once she let go of any notion that she might one day marry Walter she took off like a lark. Freed from one man she found many enthusiasms. She was in love and beset by infatuation and in love again almost every time I saw her—each time with a new and fabulous conquest that I had to remind myself could be either male or female. If she was Siobhan’s lover it was clearly not a monogamous relationship. As Rain was my daughter, my girl, Walter was my son—a godson, but my boy. I continued to do things for Walter, I helped open in him doors of perception and creativity that his father had failed to do, despite the fact that he was a musician himself. I encouraged him to develop that sense of the people around him; his immediate peers, appointing them as the commissioners of his role as a creative writer and composer—working entirely on their behalf, for their pleasure and enthrallment. I guided him in the business of listening and waiting, the two most important abilities for a composer.

What I did not do was prepare him for the deleterious side effects of madness.

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