Straight Face

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• In many ways, South Africa was, and probably still is, lagging behind the times, and being in Cape Town was like living somewhere that hadn't caught up. There was a great determination to be sophisticated and in touch, but six thousand miles separated us from what was going on, and we were doomed to be colonial. The war distanced us even further. When l was at school there was almost no live theatre, and the little there was was usually amateur. This doesn't mean to say that sometimes it wasn't rather good and performed with affection; the word amateur, after all, sterns from the Latin verb 'to love'. (查看原文)

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• I should have been brighter at school than I was. I had shown promise earlier, but, as time went by and I became more and more self-conscious, I began to lose confidence. When exams came round, I'd stare in panic at the questions, unable to find a way of responding. I could hear the seconds ticking by on the clock over the door, the squeak of the invigilator's shoes as he patrolled the aisles, the dipping of pens in porcelain inkwells, the scratch of nibs, a sneeze, a cough, the traffic going by outside. Sometimes, it was almost as though I wasn't really present - as though it were part of a dream. It wasn't lack of preparation, for l was always conscientious to a fault. The preponderance of scientific and mathematical subjects in the curriculum hampered me, it was true, but I should have ... (查看原文)

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