22-03-2010, 01:15 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:I remember Sir Reginald with fondness. I studied under him at Peterhouse for my Doctorate in Political Sophistry & Trouser Stuffing (not to be confused with shirt lifting). I got a 2:1, whereas he had a first class bank account.
Good times.
This must have been during Pike-Darkness' faux-revolutionary period circa 1968, when he was writing for Harold Evans' Times on such diverse issues as fashion ("the drainpipe hipsters against the fascist De Gaulle"), politics ("is Robert Kennedy a communist?"), and rock music ("Mick Jagger gives me satisfaction: an interview"). This period is not to be confused with his later, Monday Club period, when he anonymously authored the pamphlet "Red Star over Sidcup" (Grocer Heath as a conscious agent of the Bolshevik conspiracy), and co-authored (with William F. Buckley, Jr.) a thriller alleging that a naked Khrushchev axe-murdered JFK in revenge for his humiliation in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
By the way, he didn't stroke a youthful Guyatt leg, did he, and demand you be of some service to the nation?
Thought as much. Typical SIS.
Gasp!
He must've tried the same tactic on you too then? I sent him packing to fag on other fags. My attitude was that nothing was for free (not even when I was at that tender age) and that ethic, I'm delighted to say, later informed the monetarist philosophy of Keith Joseph. Ho hum.
Tell me, didn't the Grocer play his own piano (and others too, I understand) At Peterhouse? I know, for a fact, that he was caught jibbing his sails, and raising his mast colours in the lavatories at there.
I ask because I'm sure I remember the occasional loud shouts of "Bonjour matelot!" followed by the tinkling of the ivories in a rather poor and frail rendition of Pyotr Ilyich's Sugar Plum Fairy wafting out of the common room. That and the whiff of buttered crumpet, oozing cream horns amidst the general cottaging activities that Peterhouse was renowned for.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14