The British, of course, are capable of being embarrassed by anybody
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This loving and mother-deprived boy was sent to a series of nightmarish English boarding schools, where he was beaten and bullied and traumatized beyond even the normal expectations of English adolescence.
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Lewis writes about his last school, Malvern, at such length, and with such horror—with far more intensity than he writes even about serving on the Western Front.
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A bright and sensitive British boy turned by public-school sadism into a warped, morbid, stammering sexual pervert.
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Joy kept him alive—and it is possible that the absence of happiness allowed an access of joy.

An old Oxford tradition claims that Bertrand Russell, on being asked why his concerns had turned so dramatically away from academic philosophy, replied, with great dignity, “Because I discovered fucking.” [Старое оксфордское предание гласит, что в ответ на вопрос, почему он так резко отвернулся от занятий академической философией, Бернард Расселл с большим достоинством ответил: "Потому что я открыл для себя е$лю."]