
Alan Bennett - The History Boys
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The Importance of Having a Collaborator
I did in the sense that it always seemed to me that it was much more like what university should have been and university was really. That I there was much more talk and more as it were intellectual brawling really on the Russian course. When I got to university and there wasmuch more sheer enjoyment really because it was the first time I'd been away from home for any length of time. It was altogether much more of an expansive period than when he was at university. And looking back you can see the people who were probably gay and you didn't realize it but then that's been my life altogether. But I imagine it did go on but it didn't really touch me but then that
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