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A Life of One's Own, by Gerald Brenan. A sharp-eyed and superbly honest autobiography of a 69-year-old Englishman who, at 25, opted out of civilization to pursue a hermit's vocation.
But when his instructors deal only with technical issues, this shows the student that success as defined academically--is purely the ability to deal well with these same issues. The student comes to believe that he must either devote himself to technical issues or else reject any definition of success...
A Life of One's Own, by Gerald Brenan. A sharp-eyed and superbly honest autobiography by a 69-year-old Englishman who at 25 opted out of civilization to pursue a hermit's vocation.
In a deep Southern drawl, Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins spoke in agreement. "If a police officer is so thinskinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty, then he is in the wrong kind of business...
The Gasman Goeth. Brenan lives in Spain-not because it is romantic but "because it is cheap"-surrounded by a 2,000-book library, writing distinguished books about Spain (South from Granada, The Spanish Labyrinth], and glumly accepting visits from old Bloomsbury friends like Lytton Strachey. What makes Brenan'...