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...When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that he buries in his ex-wife's garden. Several centuries on, after a great flood has reduced England to an archipelago and returned society to a pretaxi - indeed, premedieval - state, Dave's book is unearthed and becomes a kind of New Knowledge, the founding text of a new religion...
...that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd," she says. "The more this goes on, the more I think, Let's just all get on with life." She's moving to Washington to join the conservative American Enterprise Institute and is finishing her memoir. Its working title is a reminder that Hirsi Ali has no fear of stirring things up: "I want it to be called The Infidel...
Hall also published a memoir about his wife in 2005, “The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon...
...year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight when his seatmate asked where he went to school. "For six hours he kept making snide remarks," he says. Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, wrote in his memoir that his family believed "that if I had not gone to Eton I would have become Prime Minister in 1990." (That was the year that the Conservative Party opted instead for John Major, who attended Rutlish Grammar School in south London.) It's not because Eton lacks famous alumni...
...this careful human cultivation is that for many, Eton becomes hard to outgrow: a more intense experience, at a more formative time, than anything that comes after. Nick Fraser, an accomplished documentary filmmaker, has just published The Importance of Being Eton, Inside the World's Most Powerful School, a memoir-cum-essay that probes Eton's lifelong influence. He speaks of classmates who marry each other's sisters in order to remain in a kind of Eton club, of their difficulties in relating to exotic creatures like women and the less privileged, and quotes writer John Le Carr...