Thoughts on receiving an Honorary Degree at Oxford

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The Oxford Magazine
May 31, 1962

When I was a lanky, sunburnt youth, I worked as a house-painter's apprentice. In spring and in summer I spent day after day on the iron roofs, painting them with a long-handled brush, painting them blue, or green, or bright red. And I always carried a book with me, a bulky and battered "English self-taught" by Professor Meyendorf.

Before starting work, I used to get a piece of chalk and practise writing on the roof. This is the kind of stuff I copied out of the textbook: 'Does the gardener's two-year-old son love the grandson of his little daughter?'

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