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Menen is admirably clear and frank about even his deepest social and psychological flaws. There was a coldness that pervaded the book, however. I found it difficult to put my finger on exactly the source of this. Perhaps it was Menen's judgements of his parents, which at times seemed unnecessarily harsh. Perhaps it was his aloofness even when his parents were suffering later in life. At the end of the book, he describes finding a space within his heart following a period of self-prescribed ascet
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Aubrey Menen, sets about to reach that Space within his heart by peeling layers after layers of his life with an almost steely coldness of a surgeons knife.
He seems so far removed from any emotional outbursts in this exercise.
There is a lack of defensiveness in accounting for his life and the way he set about living it on his own terms.
This lack of defensiveness and subsequent unapologetic writing frees the reader from unconsciously adopting a moralistic view on his life.
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He seems so far removed from any emotional outbursts in this exercise.
There is a lack of defensiveness in accounting for his life and the way he set about living it on his own terms.
This lack of defensiveness and subsequent unapologetic writing frees the reader from unconsciously adopting a moralistic view on his life.
After reading the book ...more
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Salvator Aubrey Clarence Menen was born in 1912 in London, of Irish and Indian parents. After attending University College, London he worked as a drama critic and a stage director. When World War II broke out, he was in India, where he organized pro-Allied radio broadcasts and edited film scripts for the Indian government. After the war ended, he returned to London to work with an advertising agen
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