Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Pledge Union, which supposedly involved the cream of British youth. They thought wars were ridiculous and said just what everybody says today. They said they would not fight in any war.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,
You are the saviours that we need around here.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.