By Edmund Wilson
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Jan. 2o-21. Olili drove us to Oxford, the place Isaiah gave us lunch in any respect Souls, with Stephen Spender and Stuart Hampshire, fifty two who had a tremendous reddish-brown forelock falling down on his face, and took us a bit round the faculties. It had replaced greatly considering the fact that 1914, the final time I have been in Oxford. as a result Nuffield works, the site visitors at the excessive is worse, it appeared to me, than wherever in the USA. they've got no procedure of forestalling it in order that humans can pass the road, and the structure of the previous medieval city presents no to be had pass streets or parallel streets. The structures also are in very undesirable repair-shabby and crumbling, scrofulous and leprous. I advised Isaiah that the Bodleian, which used to be contrary his home windows, must be redone and the dome painted eco-friendly. Max Beerbohm's Roman emperors had crumbled away to some degree the place they scarcely any more had faces. He advised me later, while I observed him at Rapallo, they'd initially been grey yet had grew to become later to their current yellow. -Elena and Helen drove again to London with Olili, and that i spent the evening. i used to be simply as joyful to not have .. EW's speculations on Koestler's friend's feedback appear to have no origin in truth. Sir Isaiah Berlin used to be no longer reared in a Hassidic sect, nor have been his mom and dad. LONDON AND OXFORD, 1954 one hundred thirty five to force 'Aith Olili, who, like Walther, 03 was once a velocity demon. Isaiah placed me up in Amery's54 room in All Souls: a dark little telephone like a fourth-rate manhattan rooming condo. The cleaning soap dish had obviously by no means been washed, and the basin had a caked yellow ring of airborne dirt and dust round the within, which confirmed that it had by no means been washed, purely emptied out. The curtains have been light and filthy, the mattress was once rusty. at the door-there used to be no closet-hung a black collage dress, with a tab that acknowledged "Right Honourable XX Amery" contained in the neck. in a single of the drawers of the apparent little bureau, his night outfits have been stored. within the morning, the scout got here in at 8, pulled the curtains again, perfunctorily rubbed my footwear, and remarked, "It's a moist day, sir. " The scouts have been evidently disaffected. What I took, the 1st evening at dinner at Christ Church (? ) and the second one evening in any respect Souls, to be a very good previous collage self-discipline became out to be in simple terms the high-handedness of the class-contemptuous waiters. they'd whisk the classes away earlier than we had had an opportunity to devour them. in any respect Souls, within the darkened and vaulted room, they all at once descended on us and stripped the desk of its tablecloth, changing the candlestick; then shoved at A L. Rowse, the presiding don, the gear for the port and the claret. i used to be instructed later that the All Souls fellows have been now obliged to pass one degree in their dinner party: they'd previously moved to a different room for the port, then to a 3rd for the espresso; yet now they moved just for the espresso. Isaiah used to be engaged for a part of on a daily basis in refusing the wardenship of Nuffield collage, which was once almost always dedicated to social studies-which he thought-I'm definite particularly rightly-impossible for him.