'Wot is yore opinion of colin wilson, the new philosopher?' sa fotherington-thomas, hanging by his weedy heels from the cross-bar.
'Advanced, forthright, signifficant,' i repli, kicking off the mud from my footer boots.
'He takes, i think, the place of t.s.eliot in speaking for the younger genneration. Have you any idea of the score?'
This exchange, from Back in the jug agane, the final volume of the Molesworth tetralogy, was irresistibly brought back to me when I heard Colin Wilson on the radio on Sunday, speaking on Private Passions. I read the Outsider when a young thing, and I found it hard to square the existential gloom of that work with the jolly-sounding man who discussed his obscure music choices with Michael Berkeley,
Willans, Geoffrey and Searle, Ronald
Molesworth
London: Penguin, 1999
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