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За последние 60 дней ни разу не выходила


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English Reading - Чтение на английском John STRACHEY - The Adventure of Living


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John St Loe Strachey (1901 – 1963)

Born in Guildford, Surrey, England. He studied at Oxford, became a Labour Member of Parliament. He participated in World War 2, was a  minister of food, secretary of state for war.

But though I was so fully convinced that the doors of The Spectator were shut against me, I was, of course, determined that my two reviews should, if possible, make the editors feel what a huge mistake they had made and what a loss they were incurring.  But, alas! here I encountered a great disappointment.  When I had written my reviews they appeared to me to be total failures!  I was living at the time in an “upper part” in South Molton Street, in which I, my younger brother, Henry Strachey, and two of my greatest friends, the present Sir Bernard Mallet and his younger brother Stephen Mallet, had set up house.  I remember to this day owning to my brother that though I had intended my review of Gulliver’s Travels to be epoch-making, it had turned out a horrible fiasco.  However, I somehow felt I should only flounder deeper into the quagmire of my own creation if I rewrote the two reviews.  Accordingly, they were sent off in the usual way.  Knowing my father’s experience in such matters, I did not expect to get them back in type for many weeks.  As a matter of fact, they came back quite quickly.  I corrected the proofs and returned them.  To my astonishment the review of Swift appeared almost at once.  I supposed, in the luxury of depression, that they wished to cast the rubbish out of the way as quickly as possible.

My first intention was not to go again to The Spectator office, the place where I was so obviously not wanted, but I remembered that my father had told me that it was always the custom to return books as soon as the proofs were corrected or the articles had appeared.  I determined, therefore, that I would do the proper thing, though I felt rather shy, and feared I might be looked upon as “cadging” for work.

With my books under my arm I walked off to Wellington Street, on a Tuesday morning, and went up to Mr. Hutton’s room, where on that day the two editors used to spend the greater part of the morning discussing the coming issue of the paper.  I had prepared a nice little impromptu speech, which was to convey in unmistakable terms that I had not come to ask for more books; “I fully realise and fully acquiesce in your inability to use my work.”  When I went in I was most cordially received, and almost immediately Mr. Hutton asked me to look over a pile of new books and see if there was anything there I would like.  This appeared to be my cue, and I accordingly proceeded to explain that I had not come to ask for more books but only to bring back the two books I had already reviewed and to thank the editors.  I quite understood that there was no more work for me.

Then, to my amazement, Mr. Townsend, with that vividness of expression which was his, said something to the effect that they had only said that when they didn’t know that I could write.  The position, it appeared, had been entirely changed by the review of Gulliver’s Travels and they hoped very much that I should be able to do regular work for The Spectator.  Mr. Hutton chimed in with equally kind and appreciative words, and I can well remember the pleasant confusion caused in my mind by the evident satisfaction of my future chiefs.  I was actually hailed as “a writer and critic of the first force.”

"The Adventure of Living"

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