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- W2317210552 abstract "My earliest memory of Angus dates from the time when I first went to Westminster School at the age of thirteen in about 1927. I was walking round the cloisters behind the Abbey with him, listening to long sagas about his extraordinary family. I was an ordinary looking boy, rather large and strong for my age, withdrawn and taciturn owing to extreme timidity, or one might say more accurately, cowardice. In contrast Angus, then as now, was courageous and extremely talkative, an amusing and brilliant conversationalist; and his appearance, I thought, was very strange indeed. He was very thin, giving an appearance of weakness, with a pale, babyish face, dominated by protruding blue eyes and topped by very fair crinkly hair, sticking out wildly in all directions. He gave the impression, in fact false, of being vulnerable, defenseless and easily intimidated. I had already decided, at my preparatory school, owing to some mysterious moral grace, that odd-looking timid boys must not be bullied, but strenuously protected. This decision meant that I had no inhibitions in trying to become friends with Angus-not that he was in any danger of being bullied, for he was a year older than I and already happily established at the school. But, being myself cowardly, I preferred friends who were gentle and powerless to injure me, and with Angus there was the added bonus that he was extremely entertaining. The tales he told of his family, who seemed all to be outrageously eccentric in very various ways, were to me, who knew only my own conventional and respectable, if liberally enlightened, family, like exaggerated, improbable fictions. Some of them were in fact true to life to an almost alarming degree. His imitation of his brother Clive, which was like a sinisterly cynical version of one of Mrs. Nickleby's monologues, was so exact that I felt quite frightened when I met Clive and found that he really did talk like that. The other members of Angus's family, his father, several elder brothers and some of their wives, when I met them were less startling realizations of Angus's representations of them-not that these were in way false or unfairbut the reality was less amusing and coherent than the picture. That is" @default.
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- W2317210552 title "Talking about Angus Wilson" @default.
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