“Dominique finally qualified as an analyst and began her practice in the spare room where I had once sat and stared down at the traffic. And I edited news for the BBC, seeming to hear from time to time Dan’s sour query: ‘Why not make some instead?’ The truth is I had no great wish to, not that sort anyway. I was not seeking my own promotion and it soon enough became apparent that no one else was either. Simply being in the BBC had seemed a sufficient achievement when I left Oxford. I still remem...bered my grandparents’ faces when I told them where I was soon to be employed. They had smiled, both of them, small smiles of wonder, that one of their own should have passed at last through the looking-glass: I was about to join those on the other side of the radio, the invisible ones who spoke while lesser folk listened. In fact, my relatively humble position on the news desk left me free to pursue my real interests, solving the riddle life had given me. This necessitated studies that were complex, involved, possibly arcane.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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