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The Loom of Youth By: Alec Waugh (1898-1981) |
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"Well, I mean there's Davenham now and " "Davenham!" came the scornful retort. "What does it matter what
happens to Davenham? He's absolutely useless to the House,
rotten at games and spends his whole time reading about
fossils. Who cares a curse about Davenham!" "Oh I suppose you're right, but " "My dear ass, of course I am right. Meredith is a simply
glorious fellow. Do you remember the way he brought down
Freeman in the Two Cock? Why, the House simply couldn't get on
without him." To Gordon all this conveyed very little. He had no idea who
Meredith or Davenham were. The only thing he realised was that
for those who wore a blue and gold ribbon laws ceased to exist.
It was apparently rather advantageous to get into the Fifteen.
He had not looked on athletics in that light before. Obviously
his preparatory school had failed singularly to keep level with
the times. He had always been told by the masters there that
games were only important for training the body. But at
Fernhurst they seemed the one thing that mattered. To the
athlete all things are forgiven. There was clearly a lot to
learn. "To him who desireth much, much is given; and to him who
desireth little, little is given; but to neither according to
the letter of his desire." GILBERT CANNAN
The Loom of Youth
ALEC WAUGH Methuen First published in Great Britain 1917
Reprinted July 1917, August 1917, September 1917 (twice)
November 1917, January 1918, March 1918, October 1918,
1919, 1921, 1930, 1933, 1945
Cassell's Pocket Library, 1928
Penguin Abridged Edition, 1942
New edition reset and revised 1955
Reprinted 1972 This edition published 1984
by Methuen London Ltd
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Copyright (c) Alec Waugh 1917
ISBN 0 413 54970 4 (hardback)
ISBN 0 413 54980 1 (paperback) Printed and bound in Great Britain
by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Bungay, Suffolk This book is available in both a hardcover and paperback edition. The
paperback is solid subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of
trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated
without the Publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover
other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition
including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected in text. There is
one place where a subscript is used and is designated by an underscore
and curly brackets thus: H {2}O.
Dedicatory Letter to Arthur Waugh
My Dear Father, This book, which I am bringing you, is a very small return for all you
have given me. In every mood, in every phase of my shifting pilgrimage,
I have found you ever the same loving, sympathetic, wise. You have been
with me in my success, and in my happiness, in my failures and in my
disappointments, in the hours when I have followed wandering fires.
There has never yet come to me a moment when I did not know that I had
but to stretch out my hand to find you at my side. In return for so
much, this first book of mine is a very small offering. But yet I bring it to you, simply because it is my first. For whatever
altars I may have raised by the wayside, whatever ephemeral loyalties
may have swayed me, my one real lodestar has always been your love, and
sympathy, and guidance. And as in life it has always been to you first
that I have brought my troubles, my aims, my hopes, so in the world of
ideas it is to you that I would bring this, the first born of my dreams. Accept it. For it carries with it the very real and very deep love of a
most grateful son. A.W.
CONTENTS
Preface page 9
BOOK I: WARP AND WOOF I Groping 15 II Finding his Feet 21 III The New Philosophy 31 IV New Faces 44 V Emerging 52 VI Clarke 62 VII When One is in Rome 69
BOOK II: THE TANGLED SKEIN I Quantum Mutatus 79 II Healthy Philistinism 102 III Tin Gods 119 IV Through a Glass Darkly 130
BOOK III: UNRAVELLING THE THREADS I Common Room Faces 134 II Carnival 169 III Broadening Outlook 179 IV Thirds 185 V Dual Personality 196 VI The Games Committee 200 VII Rebellion 208 VIII The Dawning of many Dreams 213
BOOK IV: THE WEAVING I The Twilight of the Gods 226 II Setting Stars 239 III Romance 242 IV The Dawn of Nothing 249 V The Things that Seem 259 VI The Tapestry Completed 277
PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
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