Forgivable
When I get my life back I'm intending to devote a small part of it to Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? As it is I'm actually making progress even under the worst conditions. Trollope demands momentum. Small doses don't suit. But they're enough. Just. At least for now.
Every time I think of Anthony Trollope, I wonder if his schoolmates teased him a lot about his surname. Then I realise that of all cultures, the English are the most adept at doing that sort of thing, regardless of social class.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to be good at something.
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose Anthony's mum's name would have helped him much.
Actually I seem to remember reading somewhere that Trollope was bullied at school. It might have been in C.P. Snow's rather good essay on him in The Realists. I think that's the name of the book, in which I think I read about the bullying - but I could well be wrong on all counts. Just not to be trusted these days, I'm afraid.