River of the Brokenhearted
“In 1940, when Churchill came to power after years of being laughed at by the intelligentsia who now called upon him to save their arses, my father, telling his mother nothing of where he was going, lied about his age and went gaily off to war, hoping, like his own father, that a crawl over the top might do him in. He wrote to Janie from Halifax, jostled in among other soldiers in a crowded train station, waiting to take the Queen Mary across the pond.“You might not know, but I have 1302 guppies... in my room. You will have to feed them when I am gone—or feed them to each other if you can’t manage it. I will be away for some little time—perhaps in Europe.”We do not know what happened to his guppies, but she did remove from his room his copies of D. H. Lawrence, his Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow. “Thank you, God, I now know what girls do—or what I am supposed (or allowed, or is it willing?) to do with them” was scribbled on both.He spent most of his furloughs and nights out at theatres in London, and sent his mom postcards now and again from Piccadilly, about various theatres and theatricals he knew she would love.MoreLess
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