Bruce Chatwin
“We looked at the chitchatting intellectuals around us and he whispered in my ear: “Did you ever get a degree at university? No? Thank God, neither did I.”
—Breyten Breytenbach “PLEASE DON’T HAVE A FIT,” BRUCE WROTE TO GERTRUDE ON 24 June 1966, informing her of his departure from the firm. “We’ll survive, and before you know it Lib will be turned into a SCHOLAR! I’ll write soon: I’m sorry it’s all so precipitate, but it’s no use chewing it over and over once one’s decided to take the plunge....”
His mother-in-law needed delicate handling. She had bought their house in Gloucestershire. Furthermore, she had lent Bruce the money to buy his director’s share. “I am afraid that the art world, at least the world of art dealing, is coming to a grinding halt,” he wrote a fortnight later. “It is no longer the reasonably civilised occupation it was five years ago.”
Bruce had been contemplating the idea of university for at least four years.MoreLess
—Breyten Breytenbach “PLEASE DON’T HAVE A FIT,” BRUCE WROTE TO GERTRUDE ON 24 June 1966, informing her of his departure from the firm. “We’ll survive, and before you know it Lib will be turned into a SCHOLAR! I’ll write soon: I’m sorry it’s all so precipitate, but it’s no use chewing it over and over once one’s decided to take the plunge....”
His mother-in-law needed delicate handling. She had bought their house in Gloucestershire. Furthermore, she had lent Bruce the money to buy his director’s share. “I am afraid that the art world, at least the world of art dealing, is coming to a grinding halt,” he wrote a fortnight later. “It is no longer the reasonably civilised occupation it was five years ago.”
Bruce had been contemplating the idea of university for at least four years.MoreLess
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