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“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the move as a boy, Anthony Powell needed an energetic imagination to people a sadly under-populated world from a child's point of view. His mother and his nurse were for long periods the only people he saw, in general the one unchanging element in a peripatetic existence.” ChildhoodLonelinessOpening SentencesAnthony Powell Book:Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Source: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
“Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money.” DepressionOxford UniversityAnthony PowellUndergraduates Book:Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Source: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time