A Woman on the Edge of Time by Gavron Jeremy;

Author:Gavron, Jeremy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO000000, BIO026000, HIS058000, SOC010000, PSY052000, HIS054000, HIS015000
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Published: 2015-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

January 1965

We have a great many friends in their forties — I don’t feel they have a great advantage in knowledge or experience. It’s hard to say why — I suppose it springs from confidence in my ability to get any information if needed.

No one spends a lifetime any more working on a single subject.

It’s of course hard to know what to tell my son about what happened in Germany during the war.

Our generation knows nothing of the period when Communist parties played an important part in Europe and were full of intellectuals — when I read that crummy book, The Mandarins, about how Sartre was angry with Camus and so on — it means nothing.

Do you notice how at the University unions they’re constantly putting up provocative motions — that this house wants more contraception, or something — to attract notice and they’re usually defeated. The young technicians are too busy acquiring their little car.

Early marriage also militates against rebelliousness.

Less class distinction, less race distinction, less conformism, less bad art — we’re all for the right things if for the wrong motives often.

When I saw Look Back in Anger — we wandered into the second night by accident — I felt Osborne stood for us, he said all the things we had been saying.

The affirmative thing about the Victorians was that if they felt badly about a thing, they got up and said ‘change it’. They still could make a fuss and change things the way we can’t any more, from the lunacy laws to women’s rights — just think of all the women pioneers; they had a sense of mission, of power, and used it.

Too much notice is taken of the opinion of artists.

Intellectuals are no use to anybody today: you’ve got to have something, to be a scientist, a physicist. Just ideas are no good any more: you need the machinery to carry them into effect.

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